Why recessions don't start revolutions

Foreign Policy

Volumn , Issue 118, 2000, Pages 138-151

  Pei, Minxin ^a   Adesnik, Ariel David ^a  

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EID: 0039007944     PISSN: 00157228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1149675     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Although much has been written on the political impact of individual economic crises, cross-regional studies remain relatively scarce. The most comprehensive comparative work to date is Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi's "Modernization: Theories and Facts" (World Politics, January 1997), which examines the relationship between GDP growth and regime change in 135 countries from 1950 to 1990. Przeworski and Limongi argue that economic turmoil threatens democracy, while Karen Remmer takes the opposite position in a series of articles that includes "The Sustainability of Political Democracy: Lessons from South America" (Comparative Political Studies, December 1996).
2. Although much has been written on the political impact of individual economic crises, cross-regional studies remain relatively scarce. The most comprehensive comparative work to date is Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi's "Modernization: Theories and Facts" (World Politics, January 1997), which examines the relationship between GDP growth and regime change in 135 countries from 1950 to 1990. Przeworski and Limongi argue that economic turmoil threatens democracy, while Karen Remmer takes the opposite position in a series of articles that includes "The Sustainability of Political Democracy: Lessons from South America" (Comparative Political Studies, December 1996).
3. Detailed accounts of the interplay between economic and political forces in recent decades constitute a major focus of the anthology Democracy in Developing Countries (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1988), edited by Larry Diamond, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset. For brief and updated accounts of the interaction between economics and politics, see Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Democracy in East Asia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) as well as Jorge Domínguez and Abraham Lowenthal, eds., Constructing Democratic Governance: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in the 1990s (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Even these impressive collections, however, are no substitute for reading in-depth modern histories of the countries in question. For concise political and economic histories of individual developing nations, readers should consult the Country Studies produced by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
4. Detailed accounts of the interplay between economic and political forces in recent decades constitute a major focus of the anthology Democracy in Developing Countries (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1988), edited by Larry Diamond, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset. For brief and updated accounts of the interaction between economics and politics, see Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Democracy in East Asia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) as well as Jorge Domínguez and Abraham Lowenthal, eds., Constructing Democratic Governance: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in the 1990s (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Even these impressive collections, however, are no substitute for reading in-depth modern histories of the countries in question. For concise political and economic histories of individual developing nations, readers should consult the Country Studies produced by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
5. Detailed accounts of the interplay between economic and political forces in recent decades constitute a major focus of the anthology Democracy in Developing Countries (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1988), edited by Larry Diamond, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset. For brief and updated accounts of the interaction between economics and politics, see Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Democracy in East Asia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) as well as Jorge Domínguez and Abraham Lowenthal, eds., Constructing Democratic Governance: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in the 1990s (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Even these impressive collections, however, are no substitute for reading in-depth modern histories of the countries in question. For concise political and economic histories of individual developing nations, readers should consult the Country Studies produced by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
6. On the relationship between economic policy, economic crisis, and democracy see Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman's The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) as well Diamond and Plattner's edited collection, Economic Reform and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
7. On the relationship between economic policy, economic crisis, and democracy see Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman's The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) as well Diamond and Plattner's edited collection, Economic Reform and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
8. The full data set of economic indicators analyzed in this study can be downloaded from the FOREIGN POLICY Web site. Comprehensive macroeconomic data for countries around the world can be found in the World Bank's World Development Indicators, available through the bank's Web site. Similarly, the Penn World Tables, available through the Web site of the University of Pennsylvania, provide economic indicators on 152 countries.
9. The full data set of economic indicators analyzed in this study can be downloaded from the FOREIGN POLICY Web site. Comprehensive macroeconomic data for countries around the world can be found in the World Bank's World Development Indicators, available through the bank's Web site. Similarly, the Penn World Tables, available through the Web site of the University of Pennsylvania, provide economic indicators on 152 countries.
10. For links to these and other relevant Web sites, as well as a comprehensive index of related FOREIGN POLICY articles, access www.foreignpolicy.com.