Democracy and Economic Openness in an Interconnected System: Complex transformations
Cambridge University Press, 12/10/2009
EAN 9780521728904, ISBN10: 0521728908
Paperback, 362 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English
In this book, Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny combine the social scientific approach with a broad, interdisciplinary scope to address some of the most intriguing and important political, economic, and environmental issues of our times. Their book employs formal and statistical methods to study the interactions of economic globalization, democratic governance, income inequality, economic development, military violence, and environmental degradation. In doing so, Li and Reuveny cross multiple disciplinary boundaries, engage various academic debates, bring the insights from compartmentalized bodies of literature into direct dialogue, and uncover policy tradeoffs in a growingly interconnected political-economic-environmental system. They show that growing interconnectedness in the global system increases the demands on national leaders and their advisors; academicians and policy makers will need to cross disciplinary boundaries if they seek to better understand and address the policy tradeoffs of even more complex processes than the ones investigated here.
1. Introduction
Part I. The Democracy-Economy Nexus
2. Democracy and economic openness
3. Democracy, economic openness, and income inequality
4. Democracy and development
Part II. Bringing in Conflict
5. Democracy and conflict
6. Economic openness and conflict
Part III. Bringing in the Environment
7. Democracy and the environment
8. Economic openness and the environment
9. Conflict and the environment
10. Conclusion.