TY  - CHAP
AB  - This study systematically addresses an important yet neglected question pertaining to the potentially time-varying effects of economic development on political democracy. Building on Huntington's insightful observations of alternating “waves” and “reverse waves” of democracy in world history, we deduce research hypotheses subject to empirical falsification and find, through a systematic analysis of the experiences of 87 countries from the 1960s to 1990s, that the impact of economic development on democracy shifted from the well-known U-shaped relationship to an inverted U-curve. These shifts occurred around 1980, a time point that corresponds to Diamond's classification of the end of the “second reverse wave” and beginning of the “third wave” of democratization. The finding thus demonstrates that the “wavy” progression of democracy in the world reflects historically changing dynamics of economic development and their impacts on political democracy over time.
VL  - 18
SN  - 978-0-85724-092-7, 978-0-85724-091-0/0895-9935
DO  - 10.1108/S0895-9935(2010)0000018011
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0895-9935(2010)0000018011
AU  - Kim Hyojoung
AU  - Morrison Emory
ED  - Barbara Wejnert
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Chapter 7 Shifting functional forms in the relationship between economic development and political democracy
T2  - Democratic Paths and Trends
T3  - Research in Political Sociology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 155
EP  - 176
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -