The deep roots of modern democracy : geography and the diffusion of political institutions
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The deep roots of modern democracy : geography and the diffusion of political institutions
Cambridge University Press, 2022
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Other authors: Brendan Apfeld, Tore Wig, Andreas Forø Tollefsen
Includes bibliographical references (p. [410]-506) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion. Its geographic argument centers on access to the sea, afforded by natural harbors which enhance the mobility of people, goods, capital, and ideas. The extraordinary connectivity of harbor regions thereby affected economic development, the structure of the military, statebuilding, and openness to the world - and, through these pathways, the development of representative democracy. The authors' second argument focuses on the global diffusion of representative democracy. Beginning around 1500, Europeans started to populate distant places abroad. Where Europeans were numerous they established some form of representative democracy, often with restrictions limiting suffrage to those of European heritage. Where they were in the minority, Europeans were more reticent about popular rule and often actively resisted democratization. Where Europeans were entirely absent, the concept of representative democracy was unfamiliar and its practice undeveloped.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Deep roots
- 2. Democracy
- Part II. Maritime geography: 3. Harbors and democracy
- 4. Harbors
- 5. Regional comparisons
- 6. Global analyses
- 7. Mechanisms
- Part III. European diffusion: 8. Globalization and democracy
- 9. European Ancestry
- 10. Colonial and post-colonial eras
- 11. Global analyses
- Part IV. Alternate explanations: 12. Modalities of Geography
- 13. Modalities of European diffusion
- 14. Economics, Institutions, culture
- Part V: Conclusions: 15. A summary view
- 16. Connectedness
- Appendix A: Variables
- References.
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