On the primacy of politics in development / Adrian Leftwich -- Towards a theory of developmental democracy / Richard L. Sklar -- Democracy and development / Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane -- Governance, democracy and development / Geoffrey Hawthorn and Paul Seabright -- Development, democracy and civil society in Botswana / John D. Holm -- Dilemmas of democratic development in India / Sudipta Kaviraj -- A circle of paradox / Chung-in Moon and Yong-Cheol Kim -- Chile / Jenny Pearce -- South Africa / Tom Lodge -- Development and democratization in China / Gordon White -- Democracy without development in the South Pacific / Peter Larmour --Has democracy failed Russia? / Peter Rutland -- Two cheers for democracy? / Adrian Leftwich
Summary
Is democracy a necessary condition for economic development or is it an outcome of it? This book deals with this and other questions at the theoretical and empirical levels, focusing first on the theory and then on case studies of the relationship between democracy and development