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Culture, institutions and democratization
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Gorodnichenko Y
; Roland G
Public Choice
2021[]; 187
(1-2
): 165-195
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We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under
individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite
facing potentially more challenging collective action problems, countries with
individualistic cultures are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier
than countries with collectivist cultures. Our empirical analysis suggests a
strong and robust association between individualistic cultures and average polity
scores and durations of democracy, even after controlling for other determinants
of democracy emphasized in the literature. We provide evidence that countries
with collectivist cultures also are more likely to experience autocratic
breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to autocracy.