The Origins of Liberty : : Political and Economic Liberalization in the Modern World / / ed. by Mathew D. McCubbins, Paul W. Drake.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Drake, Paul W.,; Haggard, Stephan,; Heller, William B.,; Kaufman, Robert R.,; Keefer, Philip,; Loveman, Brian,; McCubbins, Mathew D.,; North, Douglass C.,; Rogowski, Ronald,
• HerausgeberIn: Drake, Paul W.,; McCubbins, Mathew D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 23 tables 5 line illus.

Why would sovereigns ever grant political or economic liberty to their subjects? Under what conditions would rational rulers who possess ultimate authority and who seek to maximize power and wealth ever give up any of that authority? This book draws on a wide array of empirical and theoretical appro...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• 1. The Origins of Liberty
• 2. Limited Government and Liberal Markets: An Introduction to "Constitutions and Commitment"
• 3. Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England
• 4. Democracy, Capital, Skill, and Country Size: Effects of Asset Mobility and Regime Monopoly on the Odds of Democratic Rule
• 5. The International Causes of Democratization, 1974-1990
• 6. The Political Economy of Authoritarian Withdrawals
• 7. When You Wish upon the Stars: Why the Generals (and Admirals) Say Yes to Latin American "Transitions" to Civilian Government
• 8. Political Structure and Economic Liberalization: Conditions and Cases from the Developing World
• 9. Afterword
• References
• Index