Inequality and Democratization: A Contractarian Approach
By Ben W. Ansell, David J. Samuels. 2010
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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Peter Sandholt Jensen
- Toke S. Aidt
- John R. Freeman
- Stephan Haggard
- Michael Albertus
- Victor Menaldo
- Dennis P. Quinn
- R. Kaufman
In Sociology and Political Science
- Peter Sandholt Jensen
- John R. Freeman
- Michael Albertus
- Victor Menaldo
- Stephan Haggard
- Toke S. Aidt
- Dennis P. Quinn
- R. Kaufman
Citations in the corpus
- The Economic Origins of Democracy Reconsidered (2012, background): “Several of the same design problems plague other recent tests such as those reported by Ansell and Samuels (2010).8 5 Bates and Lien (1985, fn. 23) say that in medieval times, foreign asset holders had “no leverage” on the monarch.”
- Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938 (2014, background): “43Acemoglu and Robinson (2000), Boix (2003), and Ansell and Samuels (2010) stress that inequality may affect the franchise, although there is no agreement on the nature of the effect.”
- Gaming Democracy: Elite Dominance during Transition and the Prospects for Redistribution (2014, result): “This point is also consistent with Ansell and Samuels 2010; Freeman and Quinn 2012; Haggard and Kaufman 2012.”
- Which Democracies Will Last? Coups, Incumbent Takeovers, and the Dynamic of Democratic Consolidation (2014, unknown): “…data paucity, I am unable to control for economic inequality, which has been prominently theorized to affect both transitions to democracy (Acemoglu and Robinson 2005; Ansell and Samuels 2010; Boix 2003) as well as their survival and eventual consolidation (Acemoglu and Robinson 2005, Chapter 7).”
- Inequality and Regime Change: Democratic Transitions and the Stability of Democratic Rule (2012, methodology): “Distributive Conflict Models The work of both Boix (2003) and Acemoglu and Robinson (A&R, 2006) builds on the seminal Meltzer-Richard (MR) model (1981).”