全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21193
来源ID	Working Paper 21193
	The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy
	Jeanet Bentzen; Jacob Gerner Hariri; James A. Robinson
发表日期	2015-05-26
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	We document that rules for leadership succession in ethnic societies that antedate the modern state predict contemporary political regimes; leadership selection by election in indigenous societies is associated with contemporary representative democracy. The basic association, however, is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous groups within a country; stronger groups seem to have been able to shape national regime trajectories, weaker groups do not. This finding extends and qualifies a substantive qualitative literature, which has found in local democratic institutions of medieval Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped not only by colonial history and European influence; indigenous history also matters. For practitioners, our findings suggest that external reformers' capacity for regime-building should not be exaggerated.
主题	Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; History ; Other History ; Other ; Economic Systems
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21193
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578867
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jeanet Bentzen,Jacob Gerner Hariri,James A. Robinson. The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy. 2015.