Beschreibung:
This book presents a challenge to connections many commentators make between liberal democracy and economic development.
1. Introduction: the question; Part I. The Present Context of Democratisation and Decomposing 'Liberal Democracy': 2. Decomposing 'liberal democracy'; 3. Democratisation: between the 'liberal' and the 'democratic'; Part II. The Democracy-Development Debate: Old Problem, New Thinking: 4. Constructing an empirical explanation; 5. The democracy-development debate reconsidered; 6. Reconstructing an explanation of the Asian success; 7. Conclusion, and a note on the Asian crisis.