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Preface Introduction Democracy and Despotism: Chicken and Egg? Marx and Toynbee vs. "The Cake of Custom" Mesopotamia: Earliest Formal Democracy India: The Spirit of Licchavis The Stubborn Village The Panchayat: Gandhi vs. Britain Varna and Pygmalion Confucius said...? The Hills are Alive The ...

Preface Introduction Democracy and Despotism: Chicken and Egg? Marx and Toynbee vs. "The Cake of Custom" Mesopotamia: Earliest Formal Democracy India: The Spirit of Licchavis The Stubborn Village The Panchayat: Gandhi vs. Britain Varna and Pygmalion Confucius said...? The Hills are Alive The Adat--Durable Cake Stone Age Legislatures The Consesual Islands Iroquois--The First American Republic The Tribes: Proving Jefferson Right Aztecs: Mexican Schizophrenia Incan Empire: The Democratic Fringe Bantu Assembly: Original South African Democracy One-Party Systems: Un-African Activity Semitic Pluralism Korea and Japan--The "Improbable Democracies?" Index

The 1990s have witnessed the ascendance of a new orthodoxy which asserts that democracy and development are mutually reinforcing. This is in marked contrast to the dominant consensus that held sway for the previous two decades, which stated that developmental progress in poor societies was best ...

The 1990s have witnessed the ascendance of a new orthodoxy which asserts that democracy and development are mutually reinforcing. This is in marked contrast to the dominant consensus that held sway for the previous two decades, which stated that developmental progress in poor societies was best assured by strong states, ruled by authoritarian regimes. Today, however, many new democracies are illiberal, non-participatory, and characterized by enormous inequalities. Developmental democracy cannot therefore be regarded as an assured outcome of a simultaneous process of economic and political liberalization. The central inquiry of this important new study concerns the extent to which it is possible to strive towards a new form of developmental state that can promote broad-based and equitable development in the context of legitimized, inclusive democracy. The argument running through this book is that there is scope for continuous political intervention in the design of democratic institutions that shape the context of state-led development initiatives. Institutional arrangements which foster political participation, the dispersion of political power, and increased representation by women and other disadvantaged groups can make democratic regimes more sensitive to issues of poverty, social welfare, and gender discrimination through remedial action and policy commitments. Oxford Studies in Demcratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes will concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization processes that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series will primarily be Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The Series Editor is Laurence Whitehead.

Characterizing elections as an essential institution of democratic states and war as a defining element of international politics, Gaubatz (American foreign policy, Oxford U.) examines the interaction between the two phenomena. He finds that enthusiasm for war is tempered in an electoral environment ...

Characterizing elections as an essential institution of democratic states and war as a defining element of international politics, Gaubatz (American foreign policy, Oxford U.) examines the interaction between the two phenomena. He finds that enthusiasm for war is tempered in an electoral environment by the ability of politically legitimate antiwar leaders to increase the domestic costs of going to war, and that democratic leaders have a strong motivation to avoid letting conflicts escalate into war when elections are imminent.