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The Cultural Evolution of Democracy : Saltational Changes in A Political Regime Landscape
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- Lindenfors, Patrik, 1964- (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Avdelningen för zoologisk ekologi,Centrum för evolutionär kulturforskning
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- Jansson, Fredrik (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Mälardalens högskola,Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation,Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden,Centrum för evolutionär kulturforskning
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- Sandberg, Mikael, 1956- (författare)
- Högskolan i Halmstad,Centrum för studier av politik, kommunikation och medier (CPKM),Management of Eco-Innovation,Stockholms universitet,Centrum för evolutionär kulturforskning
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- 2011-11-30
- 2011
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: PLOS ONE. - San Francisco : Public Library of Science. - 1932-6203. ; 6:11
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Abstract
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- Transitions to democracy are most often considered the outcome of historical modernization processes. Socio-economic changes, such as increases in per capita GNP, education levels, urbanization and communication, have traditionally been found to be correlates or ‘requisites’ of democratic reform. However, transition times and the number of reform steps have not been studied comprehensively. Here we show that historically, transitions to democracy have mainly occurred through rapid leaps rather than slow and incremental transition steps, with a median time from autocracy to democracy of 2.4 years, and overnight in the reverse direction. Our results show that autocracy and democracy have acted as peaks in an evolutionary landscape of possible modes of institutional arrangements. Only scarcely have there been slow incremental transitions. We discuss our results in relation to the application of phylogenetic comparative methods in cultural evolution and point out that the evolving unit in this system is the institutional arrangement, not the individual country which is instead better regarded as the ‘host’ for the political system.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Annan biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Other Biological Topics (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Evolutionsbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Evolutionary Biology (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science -- Political Science (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Cultural evolution
- Saltationism
- Gradualism
- Adaptive landscape
- Mathematics/Applied Mathematics
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