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- Title: Democracy and Durability: Empirical Analysis and a Causality Test.
- Author : Atlantic Economic Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 265 KB
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Introduction Most of the regime shifts in democracies occur through the electoral defeat of the incumbents, while dictatorships relinquish power only through violence. Democracy requires consent of the citizenry and consent requires political legitimacy. Therefore, violent popular opposition is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a democratic breakdown. Thus, it seems that to the extent that democratic authority is rooted in the popular consent, political violence poses less of a threat to democracies than it does to dictatorships. However, recent experiences in Africa and Latin America indicate that democratic decay and political delegitimization coupled with disastrous economic performance shortened the lifespan of many democratic regimes. It is, therefore, not clear whether democracies are more or less resilient than dictatorships.
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