Publication details
Review of 'From Development to Democracy. The Transformations of Modern Asia'
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
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| Description | Why some authoritarian countries democratize while others do not is a central ques-tion of comparative politics. Through a comparative historical analysis of twelvecountries of“developmental Asia”, Dan Slater and Joseph Wong offer a complementto modernization theory and an alternative to autocratic breakdown. Strong authori-tarian regimesconcededemocracy when they expect to thrive under democratic con-ditions (“victory confidence”)–building on their track record of rapid economic development that lifted their countries out of poverty–and when they expect that thepolitical regime remains stable (“stability confidence”). |