Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Reevaluating De Tocqueville*

Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-evaluating De Tocqueville∗

An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when members of a social group expect to join the ranks of other social groups in the near future, they should have less reason to exclude these other groups from the political process. In this paper, we investigate this hypothesis using a dynamic model of political economy. As well as fo...

faculty of psychology and social sciences group of anthropology master thesis in major of anthropology

چکیده پایان نامه (شامل خلاصه، اهداف، روش های اجرا و نتایج به دست آمده): کار جمع آوری گو یش های محلی در سال های اخیر شتاب امیدوار کننده ای به خود گرفته است. شاید از بارزترین اهداف جمع آوری گویش های مختلف، ثبت و ضبط آن، جلوگیری از نابودی و مهمتر از همه حل مشکلات دستوری زبان رسمی باشد. دقت در فرآیند های زبانی گویش های محلی نوع ارتباط مردم نواحی مختلف با پیرامون نشان را به ما نشان خواهد داد. از س...

Democracy and policy stability

Available online 23 October 2015 We explain stable growth performance in democracies by characterizing political systems in terms of the distribution of political power across groups, and show when the qualities of policy alternatives are uncertain, greater democracy (decentralization of authority) leads to more stable policy choices. We empirically test this mechanism by creating measures of t...

Democracy, Regime Stability, and Growth

This paper deals with the relation between a county’s type of polity, its duration, and its growth rate. Results indicate that, over time, as regimes grow older, long-standing democratic regimes are relatively more successful than autocracies with the same history of duration. The relation found does not seem to be driven by older, wellestablished democracies nor by any particular income group....

Understanding Social Democracy