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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Daron Acemoglu authorOf Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Kamer Daron Acemoglu authorOf Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
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Kamer Daron Acemoglu notableWork Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy relatedWork The Economic Origins of Democracy Reconsidered (subsequent literature)
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James A. Robinson knownFor book Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
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James A. Robinson coAuthorOf Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
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