CONTENTS
List of contributors = xi
Introduction / MANUS I. MIDLARSKY = 1
Ⅰ The early bases of democracy
1 Democracy before Athens / KENNETH A. BOLLEN ; PAMELA M. PAXTON = 13
2 Environmental influences on democracy : aridity, warfare, and land inequality / MANUS I. MIDLARSKY ; ELIZABETH MIDLARSKY = 45
3 Democracy and proto-modernity : technoecological influences on the growth of political and civil rights / EDWARD CRENSHAW = 80
4 Inequality and democracy in the anthropological record / MELVIN EMBER ; CAROL R. EMBER, ; BRUCE RUSSETT = l10
Ⅱ Economic development and thresholds of democracy
5 Economic determinants of democracy / EDWARD N. MULLER = 133
6 Informational inequality and democracy in the new world order / MILES SIMPSON = 156
7 Modernization and thresholds of democracy : evidence for a common path and process / MICHAEL COPPEDGE = 177
8 Markets and inequality in the transition from state socialism / VICTOR NEE ; RAYMOND V. LIEDKA = 202
Ⅲ Responses to democratization
9 Democracy and inequality : tracking welfare spending in Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea / STEVE CHAN = 227
10 Political regimes and industrial wages : a cross-national analysis / MARK J. GASIOROWSKI = 244
11 Social responses to neoliberal reforms in Eastem Europe in the 1990s / B E' LA GRESKOVITS = 269
12 Market, state, and citizenship in new democracies / GIUSEPPE DI PALMA = 290
Conclusion : Paradoxes of democracy / MANUS I. MIDLARSKY = 319
References = 327
Index = 356
