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Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship
Engelsk Hardback
Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship
Engelsk Hardback

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Why are some countries more democratic than others? For most non-European countries, elections began under Western colonial rule. However, existing research largely overlooks these democratic origins. Analyzing a global sample of colonies across four centuries, this book explains the emergence of colonial electoral institutions and their lasting impact. The degree of democracy in the metropole, the size of the white settler population, and pressure from non-Europeans all shaped the timing and form of colonial elections. White settlers and non-white middle classes educated in the colonizer''s language usually gained early elections but settler minorities resisted subsequent franchise expansion. Authoritarian metropoles blocked elections entirely. Countries with lengthy exposure to competitive colonial institutions tended to consolidate democracies after independence. By contrast, countries with shorter electoral episodes usually shed democratic institutions and countries that were denied colonial elections consolidated stable dictatorships. Regime trajectories shaped by colonial rule persist to the present day.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781009423533
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1009423533
Udg. Dato:
30 maj 2024
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
161mm
Højde:
236mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
30 maj 2024
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