TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorodnichenko,Yuriy
AU  - Roland,Gerard
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Culture, Institutions and Democratization
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - April 2015; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing potentially larger collective action problems, countries with an individualistic culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic culture and average polity scores and length of democracy, even after controlling for other determinants of democracy emphasized in the literature. We provide evidence that countries with collectivist culture are also more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to autocracy
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w21117
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w21117
ER  -