TY - BOOK ID - 29218110 TI - Democracy and development PY - 1992 SN - 052141685X 052105530X 0511549733 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political systems KW - Third World: economic development problems KW - Developing countries KW - Democracy KW - #SBIB:324H20 KW - #SBIB:324H40 KW - #SBIB:327.4H60 KW - 321 KW - 321 Politieke organisatie. Staten als politieke machten. Regeringsvormen KW - Politieke organisatie. Staten als politieke machten. Regeringsvormen KW - Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) KW - Politieke structuren: algemeen KW - Derde wereld: ontwikkeling, sociale verandering: algemeen KW - Politics and government. KW - Politics and government KW - Developing countries - Politics and government. KW - Democracy - Developing countries. KW - Developing countries: economic development problems KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:29218110 AB - This book is a thorough investigation into the requisites of democracy. Based on data from 132 sovereign states of the Third World, it first establishes a scale to measure the level of democracy existing in these countries. The author discusses various interpretations of the meaning of political democracy, and emerges with a specification of its essential elements which includes such elements as the holding of elections to central decision-making organs, and the maintenance of certain fundamental political liberties. Theories concerning the requisites of democracy are then examined in order to explain the manifest differences in the level of democracy among the states of the Third World. The author employs statistical techniques including regression analysis to test theories related to socio-economic conditions, demographic and cultural factors, and institutional arrangements. This book thus provides a wide-ranging examination both of the elements which constitute democracy, and of the factors which explain its varying prevalence. ER -