Democracies in development

WebAbstract. This background paper reviews the extant research and debates on the causes and consequences of democracy to provide guidance to the international donor …
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WebDemocracies in Development -- published in cooperation with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance -- makes it clear that a legitimate and effective …
The United States was celebrated as the world’s first modern democracy, but its founders feared that mistrust in government could be its undoing Two decades ago, …
The statistical correlation between democracy and development, then, had a different causal logic: simply put, democracies were less likely to break down at higher …
Then, about 500 bce, conditions favourable to democracy reappeared in several places, and a few small groups began to create popular governments. Primitive democracy, one might say, was …
WebTypes of democracy refers to pluralism of governing structures such as governments (local through to global) and other constructs like workplaces, families, community …
WebHistory of democracy. Reverse of a denarius minted by Lucius Cassius Longinus in 63 BC, depicting a Roman citizen casting a ballot into an urn. [1] A democracy is a political …
WebDemocracy (from Ancient Greek: δημοκρατία, romanized : dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') [1] is a system of government and form of liberalism in which state power is …
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Marcel Fafchamps, professor of economics and senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, wrote, “My main …
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