Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Theoretical interpretations of democratization; Research design; Empirical analysis of democratization: 1850 1993; Predictions for single countries by regions; Conclusions: Regularities since the 1850s; Appendices; Tatu Vanhanen thesis and the prospects of democracy in Latin America; The democratic anomalies: why some countries that have passed Vanhanen's democratic threshold are not democracies
Summary
Annotation 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
