Why Democracies Collapse

The Reasons for Democratic Failure and Success

Bibliographic Data

ID6299396
AuthorsAbraham Diskin (Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,, corresponding author), Hanna Diskin (Maggie Publishers, Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Reuven Y Hazan (0000-0003-4852-0649, Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume26
Issue3
Pages291-309
Publication date2005-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0192512105053787
OpenAlexW2166650354
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited85

Most studies of democratic stability are based within either the socioeconomic or the politico-institutional tradition, but usually not on both. This article combines the two approaches. In all, 11 variables associated with democratic stability are divided into four groups (institutional, societal, mediating, and extraneous) and examined in 30 cases of democratic collapse and 32 cases of stable democracies. Five variables prove to be the most influential on the fate of democracies. When a country scores negatively on four of these five variables it is almost doomed to collapse. Some of the variables prove to be correlated in an opposite way to that which has been suggested in the literature

Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Stability (learning theory · Statistics · Variables · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Mathematics · Political Conflict and Governance · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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