On democratic consolidation in the third wave- A cross country investigation.
(2006)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis evaluates the empirical support for some of the most influential
theories within the literature on democratic consolidation and applies them to the
third wave of democracy. In our population, which consists of 85 countries that
experienced a transition to democracy between the years 1974 and 1995, there
exists a large divergence in the outcome of the consolidation process. By using a multiple regression analysis, we seek to find the structural variables that can account for these differences.
Our main findings are that two specific variables have been especially
important within our population. Besides from gaining empirical importance in
our main regression analyses, they have also survived several complementary
tests.... (More) - This thesis evaluates the empirical support for some of the most influential
theories within the literature on democratic consolidation and applies them to the
third wave of democracy. In our population, which consists of 85 countries that
experienced a transition to democracy between the years 1974 and 1995, there
exists a large divergence in the outcome of the consolidation process. By using a multiple regression analysis, we seek to find the structural variables that can account for these differences.
Our main findings are that two specific variables have been especially
important within our population. Besides from gaining empirical importance in
our main regression analyses, they have also survived several complementary
tests. This has proven that countries with a higher degree of economic freedom
and those who have adopted a proportional electoral system, to a significant
degree have succeeded better in the consolidation process, than those with a lower
level of economic freedom and/or countries with a plurality/majority electoral
system. (Less)
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- author
- Ovdal, Steffen and Wahman, Michael
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Democratic consolidation,, Third wave,, Economic freedom,, Electoral design,, Comparative,, Multiple regression analysis, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- English
- id
- 1324159
- date added to LUP
- 2007-01-09 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2007-01-30 00:00:00
@misc{1324159,
abstract = {{This thesis evaluates the empirical support for some of the most influential
theories within the literature on democratic consolidation and applies them to the
third wave of democracy. In our population, which consists of 85 countries that
experienced a transition to democracy between the years 1974 and 1995, there
exists a large divergence in the outcome of the consolidation process. By using a multiple regression analysis, we seek to find the structural variables that can account for these differences.
Our main findings are that two specific variables have been especially
important within our population. Besides from gaining empirical importance in
our main regression analyses, they have also survived several complementary
tests. This has proven that countries with a higher degree of economic freedom
and those who have adopted a proportional electoral system, to a significant
degree have succeeded better in the consolidation process, than those with a lower
level of economic freedom and/or countries with a plurality/majority electoral
system.}},
author = {{Ovdal, Steffen and Wahman, Michael}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{On democratic consolidation in the third wave- A cross country investigation.}},
year = {{2006}},
}