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Institutions and Democratic Citizenship
Axel Hadenius
Abstract
The book contains two parts that have a broad theme in common. The aim in Part I is to contribute to the debate on democracy's preconditions. Drawing on a broad range of theories, the author specifies certain societal and institutional traits that can serve to further democracy. Democratic development in Africa, Latin America, and India is then compared. The conclusion is that democracy is not the product of social and economic forces first of all. To a greater extent, it is the consequence of prevailing institutional conditions, i.e. the nature of the state
Keywords: Africa, democracy, democratic development, economic development, Europe, governance, India, institutional development, Latin America, state
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199246663 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0199246661.001.0001 |
