Urbanization and democracy in the framework of modernization theory:recent empi...

• Author(s): Dima, Bogdan ; Leitão, Nuno Carlos ; Dima, Stefana
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.15/554
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém
• Subject(s): Democracy; Modernization; Urbanization; Polity IV; GMM system
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The goal of this study is to provide empirical evidence for existence of positive relationship between urbanization and democracy. We involve a dataset of 56 developing countries covering a time span between 1982 and 2007. The research hypothesis is that developing countries tend to be more democratic at higher levels of urbanization. We test this hypothesis within GMM methodological framework and find some evidences.