Democracy and Development

民主与发展

• 批准号: 9022605
• 负责人: Adam Przeworski
• 金额: $ 9.08万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-04-01 至 1993-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9022605&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Democracy; Development

The relationship between democracy and economic growth is among the most important but poorly understood in the field of political economy. Are democracy and economic growth compatible? Or is the sacrifice of personal freedom a necessary price people must pay to escape poverty? The central question of this project is whether democracy promotes, impedes, or is irrelevant to economic development. However, because economic development probably also influences the development of democracy, the study also considers the effects of growth on democracy. This project examines the reciprocal influences between democracy and development using advanced statistical methods and aggregate data on a cross section of the world's nation states since 1945. When completed, the study should help us understand whether there are any conditions under which authoritarian governments are superior to democracies in producing wealth for their citizens and whether there is some minimum level of economic development that is necessary for the establishment of stable democratic rule. These questions are particularly urgent today as attempts to establish or re-establish democracy are occurring in numerous countries around the world, including especially in eastern Europe.

民主与经济增长之间的关系是 最重要但在政治领域却知之甚少 经济民主与经济增长是否相容？ 或者是 牺牲个人自由是人们必须付出的必要代价， 摆脱贫困？ 这个项目的核心问题是， 民主促进、阻碍或与经济无关。 发展然而，由于经济发展可能也 影响民主的发展，研究还认为， 增长对民主的影响。 这个项目考察了民主与民主之间的相互影响， 利用先进的统计方法和汇总 自1945年以来世界民族国家的横截面数据。 研究完成后，应能帮助我们了解 是独裁政府 在为公民创造财富方面上级民主国家， 是否存在某种最低经济发展水平， 这是建立稳定的民主制度所必需的。这些 这些问题在今天尤为紧迫，因为试图建立 或重建民主的运动正在许多国家发生 在世界各地，尤其是在东欧。