Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
The mechanics of regime instability in Latin America
The paper is narrowly addressed to a single puzzle: How did it happen that countries that attempted to install democracy earlier enjoyed it less frequently? Regime dynamics are driven by two mechanisms: (1) Democracies become more durable as per capita income increases, and (2) Past experiences with democracy destabilize both democracies and autocracies. As a result, countries that experiment with democracy at lower income levels experience more regime instability. Moreover, until they reach some income threshold, at any time such countries are less likely to be democratic than countries that first enter democracy when they have higher incomes. Hence, paradoxically, the resistance of European monarchies against democracy resulted in democracies that were more stable than those following postindependence attempts in Latin America.
- Alternative title
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Mecanismos de inestabilidad de régimen en América Latina
Die Mechanik der Regimeinstabilität in Lateinamerika
- ISSN
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1868-4890
- Extent
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Seite(n): 5-36
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 1(1)
- Subject
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Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme
Politikwissenschaft
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
politisches System
Einkommensverhältnisse
Demokratie
politische Stabilität
Westeuropa
Lateinamerika
empirisch
empirisch-quantitativ
deskriptive Studie
historisch
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Przeworski, Adam
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (where)
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Deutschland
- (when)
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2009
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-200
- Last update
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21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST
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Object type
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Associated
- Przeworski, Adam
Time of origin
- 2009
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