Economic Development and Democracy: the View from Latin America

Todd Landman

Political Studies, 1999, vol. 47, issue 4, 607-626

Abstract: This article provides a robust empirical test of the economic development thesis using time‐series data on seventeen Latin American countries (n=408). It specifies similar models (both linear and non‐linear) to those found in the global comparative literature on economic development and democracy in an effort to replicate their findings at the regional level. The statistical analysis shows that the positive relationship between economic development and democracy is not upheld at this level, even when using alternative measures of both and controlling for sub‐regional variation. Overall, the analysis provides a regional ‘most likely’ study that infirms the main claims of modernization theory.

Date: 1999
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