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

  • Edited by Aurel Croissant, Universität Heidelberg, Olli Hellmann, University of Waikato, New Zealand
  • Book:
    Stateness and Democracy in East Asia
    Published online:
    13 May 2020
    Print publication:
    21 May 2020, pp 233-262

  • 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.