Bøker av Tatu Vanhanen

Examines the struggle for democracy and problems of democratization in eight different parts of the world to suggest that conscious choices of people and their leaders matter, and that the dissemination of good strategies can help.

In light of the sudden collape of communist systems in Eastern Europe in 1989-90, this book attempts to explain their democratization from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Vanhanen provides the most extensive comparative survey of the state and conditions of democracy ever made, with historical data and explanatory variables extending back to the 1850s, and with forecasts covering seven regions of the world.

This book examines the relationship between indicators of resource distribution and democratization in the group of 170 countries with data ranging from the 1850s to the present day. Vanhanen argues that the emergence of democracy is closely linked to resource distribution.