Processes and Mechanisms of Democratization

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2247274
AutoresCharles Tilly (Columbia University, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume18
Fascículo1
Páginas1-16
Data de publicação2000-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0735-2751 • E-ISSN: 1467-9558
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/0735-2751.00085
OpenAlexW2037768447
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas57
Referências citadas22

Unlike Artistotle's analysis, recent treatments of democratization identify pathways and propose necessary conditions but fall short of specifying cause-effect relations. Democratization does not follow a single path, and is unlikely to have universally applicable necessary or sufficient conditions. A political process analysis of democratization defines it as movement toward broad citizenship, equal citizenship, binding consultation of citizens, and protection of citizens from arbitrary state action. High levels of all four elements depend on a significant degree of state capacity. Democratization emerges from interacting changes in public politics, categorical inequality, and networks of trust, which in turn depend on specifiable mechanisms of change in social relations. When the shocks of conquest, confrontation, colonization, and revolution promote democratization, they do so by accelerating the same causal mechanisms. The next round of research and theory on democratization requires identification, verification, and connection of the relevant causal mechanisms

Citizenship · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Law · Mathematics · Political Conflict and Governance · Social Capital and Networks