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from IV - Alternate Explanations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
Outside of geographic factors and pathways from Europe, there are a wide range of other theories about the roots of democracy. Chapter 14 surveys this wide literature and looks at theories on: agricultural transitions, modernization, inequality, labor scarcity, marriage and family patterns, feudalism, parliaments, Christianity, Catholicism, state size, state–society relations, and ideas. A brief summary of the literature and basic empirical tests of each are provided. The chapter concludes with a discussion of challenges related to causal inference and the relationship between the theory advanced in this book and these alternatives. It is concluded that most of these factors are best considered as proximal causes of democracy and are not necessarily at odds with the book’s framework.
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