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The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy - Geography and the Diffusion of Political Institutions (Paperback)
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The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy - Geography and the Diffusion of Political Institutions (Paperback)
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This book explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on
geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion. Its
geographic argument centers on access to the sea, afforded by
natural harbors which enhance the mobility of people, goods,
capital, and ideas. The extraordinary connectivity of harbor
regions thereby affected economic development, the structure of the
military, statebuilding, and openness to the world - and, through
these pathways, the development of representative democracy. The
authors' second argument focuses on the global diffusion of
representative democracy. Beginning around 1500, Europeans started
to populate distant places abroad. Where Europeans were numerous
they established some form of representative democracy, often with
restrictions limiting suffrage to those of European heritage. Where
they were in the minority, Europeans were more reticent about
popular rule and often actively resisted democratization. Where
Europeans were entirely absent, the concept of representative
democracy was unfamiliar and its practice undeveloped.
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