Capitalist Development and Democracy.  Rueschemyer, Dietrich and Evelyne Huber Stephens and John D. Stephens.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1992.  387 pages.

Capitalist Development and Democracy by Rueschmyer, Stephans and Stephans is an ambitious work which seeks to advance a novel theory of democratic development through the context of comparing and combining two disparate methods of social science investigation,  comparative historical studies and quantitative cross-national studies.  Written for an academic, mostly post-graduate, audience this work transverses virtually all of the worlds geography as well as over 150 years of capitalist development to make its points.  Densely written with many detailed examples this work is a comprehensive look at a topic which has challenged political scientists and sociologist for many years; under what conditions is democracy likely to develop, and what conditions are needed to maintain it. [click to continue…]

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