Sabancı Üniversitesi
Sanat ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi

SİYASET BİLİMİ SEMİNERİ

Legal Institutions
and Democratic Survival

Jeffrey K. Staton

(Emory University, Siyaset Bilimi Bölümü)

6 Haziran 2012, Çarşamba

13:30  SSBF 2034

Özet:

Do institutions designed to limit arbitrary government promote the survival of democratic regimes? Although the international effort to build the rule of law is predicated on a belief that they do, mainstream research on democratic survival typically treats institutions as epiphenomenal. We argue that institutions encourage regime survival by addressing problems of monitoring and social coordination that complicate democratic compromise. We find that property rights institutions generally, and judicial institutions specifically, encourage survival, especially so when macroeconomic conditions favor inter-class compromise.

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