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10 - Stateness and Democracy: Evidence from East Asia and Cross-Regional Comparisons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2020

By
Aurel Croissant  and
Olli Hellmann
Edited by
Aurel Croissant  and
Olli Hellmann
Aurel Croissant
Affiliation:
Universität Heidelberg
Olli Hellmann
Affiliation:
University of Waikato, New Zealand
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Summary

The concluding chapter summarizes and synthesizes findings across the different country. This exercise reveals two key points regarding the state-democray nexus. First, stateness is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for democratic consolidation. Not only can newly democratising regimes be subject to path-dependent effects but intervening variables – in particular, the organization of particularistic networks - also play a role. Second, democracy will only have a strengthening effect on stateness if all partial regimes are sufficiently consolidated. That is to say, defective democracies do not produce strong incentives for political elites to invest in state-building. These findings are placed in a comparative perspective with ‘third-wave’ democracies in other parts of the world, which shows that our causal mechanisms travel beyond East Asia.

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democracyautocracystatenessstate capacitycitizen agreementpath-dependencyparticularistic networksEast AsiaAfricaLatin America
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Stateness and Democracy in East Asia , pp. 233 - 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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