The Autocratic Legacy of Early Statehood
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The Autocratic Legacy of Early Statehood. / Hariri, Jacob Gerner.
I: American Political Science Review, Bind 106, Nr. 3, 2012, s. 471-494.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Autocratic Legacy of Early Statehood
AU - Hariri, Jacob Gerner
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This paper documents that precolonial state development was an impediment to the development of democracy outside Europe. This was so because comparatively developed states were harder to colonize and saw less European settlement. If they were colonized, in more developed states colonial rule was exercised via indigenous state infrastructure. This served to reinforce traditional authority structures. Less developed states, in contrast, were often colonized with institutional transplantation and an influx of settlers carying ideals of parliamentarism. Using both OLS and IV-estimation, we present statistical evidence that precolonial state development has been an impediment to democracy and document the proposed causal mechanism for a large sample of non-European countries. The conclusion is extremely robust to dierent samples, diferent democracy indices, to an array of exogenous controls, and to a number of alternative theories of the causes and correlates of democracy.
AB - This paper documents that precolonial state development was an impediment to the development of democracy outside Europe. This was so because comparatively developed states were harder to colonize and saw less European settlement. If they were colonized, in more developed states colonial rule was exercised via indigenous state infrastructure. This served to reinforce traditional authority structures. Less developed states, in contrast, were often colonized with institutional transplantation and an influx of settlers carying ideals of parliamentarism. Using both OLS and IV-estimation, we present statistical evidence that precolonial state development has been an impediment to democracy and document the proposed causal mechanism for a large sample of non-European countries. The conclusion is extremely robust to dierent samples, diferent democracy indices, to an array of exogenous controls, and to a number of alternative theories of the causes and correlates of democracy.
U2 - 10.1017/S0003055412000238
DO - 10.1017/S0003055412000238
M3 - Journal article
VL - 106
SP - 471
EP - 494
JO - American Political Science Review
JF - American Political Science Review
SN - 0003-0554
IS - 3
ER -
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