CONTENTS
Preface = ⅶ
1 Introduction: The Problem of Capitalist Development and Democracy = 1
2 Capitalist Development and Democracy: The Controversy = 12
Comparative. Historical and Cross-national Quantitative Research on Development and Democracy = 12
Methodological Reflections = 27
3 Capitalist Development and Democracy: A Theoretical Framework = 40
Democracy and its Relation to Social Inequality = 41
Class Structures, Classes, and Class Organizations = 51
State Structures and Democracy = 63
Democracy and the Transnational Structures of Power = 69
Comparative Research on Democracy in a New Framework = 75
4 Advanced Capitalist Countries = 79
Introduction = 79
The Transition to Democracy in Europe: The Democratic Cases = 83
Transition and Breakdown: The Authoritarian Cases = 99
Democratic Development in Britain's Settler Colonies = 121
Conclusion and Discussion = 140
5 Latin America = 155
The Argument = 159
Conditions for Initial Democratization = 172
Regime Transformations after Initial Democratization = 204
Regime Transformations and Transnational Structures of Power = 219
Conclusion = 222
6 Central America and The Caribbean = 226
Introduction = 226
Caribbean and Central American Cases Compared = 229
Variations within the English-speaking Caribbean = 251
Conclusion = 259
7 Conclusions and Reflections = 269
Theoretical Assessment = 269
Reflections = 291
Appendix: Classification of Regimes = 303
Notes = 309
References = 345
Index = 376
