5 Democratization

Lecture

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Required Reading

Lipset, S.M. 1959. ‘Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy,’ American Political Science Review, 53(1): 69-105.

Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J.A. 2006. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1-3.

Recommended Reading

Przeworski, A. et al. 2000. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-being in the World, 1950-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2. Presentation by Luca

Haggard, S. and Kaufman, R. 2016. Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and Regime Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapters 1 and 2. Presentation by Nelly