The Relationship between Democracy and Economic Growth An Empirical Study for Post-Communist Transition

Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: A, Uppsala University (Social Science), course: Eurasian Studies, language: English, abstract: The relationship between democracy and economic development is a subject of social studies since 19th century. With witnessing the dramatic collapses of authoritarian regimes in many different parts of the world the discussion is still relevant to guidance for transition societies such as East European and Eurasian regions. The aim of this paper is first to review the relevant discussion about the relationship between democratic and economic consolidation and secondly to answer this following questions; is there any relationship between degree of democracy and economic growth for post communist transition? According to my findings for post communist countries, there is not any significant relationship between economic growth and democratic consolidation. One possible explanation of this result could be uniqueness of post communist transition and countries own historical and cultural legacies.

Product details

• Authors: Hakan Mehmetcik
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2010
• EAN: 9783640747573
• ISBN: 978-3-640-74757-3
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 4 mm
• Illustrations: 2 Farbabb.
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science