Colonial origins of democracy and dictatorship
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 co...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, New York, NY, Port Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2024
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Democracy
> History
> Dictatorship
> Akademische Kunst
> Colonialism & imperialism
> Comparative politics
> Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
> POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative
> Political structures: democracy
> Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship
> Politisches System: Demokratie
> Politisches System: Totalitarismus und Diktatur
> Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
> Colonies
> Administration
> Europe
> Demokratie
> Totalitarismus
> Kolonialismus
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 299 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9781009423533 978-1-009-42353-3 |