Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy is a seminal political economy book that analyzes how economic structures and class interests shape the emergence and stability of democratic and authoritarian regimes.

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instanceOf book ⓘ
non-fiction book ⓘ
political economy book ⓘ
academicReception considered a seminal work on the political economy of democracy ⓘ
highly cited in economics ⓘ
highly cited in political science ⓘ
author Daron Acemoglu ⓘ
James A. Robinson ⓘ
coreArgument democracy is more likely when elites cannot fully repress demands for redistribution ⓘ
economic structures and class interests shape the emergence of democracy and dictatorship ⓘ
political institutions are endogenous to distributional conflict ⓘ
threats of social revolution can induce elites to concede democracy ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
field comparative politics ⓘ
development economics ⓘ
political economy ⓘ
political science ⓘ
hasConcept consolidation of democracy ⓘ
credible commitment to redistribution ⓘ
de facto political power ⓘ
de jure political power ⓘ
repression versus concession trade-off ⓘ
soft-liners and hard-liners within elites ⓘ
influenced comparative political economy literature ⓘ
research on democratization ⓘ
research on political institutions and development ⓘ
influencedBy class-based theories of democracy ⓘ
modernization theory ⓘ
intendedAudience academics ⓘ
graduate students in political science and economics ⓘ
language English ⓘ
mainTopic authoritarianism ⓘ
class conflict ⓘ
democratization ⓘ
economic inequality ⓘ
political institutions ⓘ
redistribution ⓘ
regime change ⓘ
publicationYear 2006 ⓘ
publisher Cambridge University Press ⓘ
relatedWork The Economic Origins of Democracy Reconsidered (subsequent literature) ⓘ
Why Nations Fail ⓘ
theoreticalApproach comparative historical analysis ⓘ
game theory ⓘ
rational choice theory ⓘ
usesMethod cross-country empirical analysis ⓘ
formal modeling ⓘ
historical case studies ⓘ

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