What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes
consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the
foremost authorities on this subject in the world, this volume
develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation
of democracy. It revolutionizes scholarship on the factors
underlying government and popular movements toward democracy or
dictatorship. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that
different social groups prefer different political institutions
because of the way they allocate political power and resources.
Their book, the subject of a four-day seminar at Harvard's Center
for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, was also the basis for
the Walras-Bowley lecture at the joint meetings of the European
Economic Association and Econometric Society in 2003 and is the
winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. Daron Acemoglu is Charles P.
Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at The Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He received the 2005 John Bates Clark
Medal awarded by the American Economic Association as the best
economist working in the United States under age 40. He is the
author of the forthcoming text Introduction to Modern Economic
Growth. James A. Robinson is Professor of Government at Harvard
University. He is a Harvard Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead
Center for International Affairs and a member of the Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research s Program on Institutions,
Organizations, and Growth. He is coeditor with Jared Diamond of the
forthcoming book Natural Experiments in History.
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