Demographic and Democratic Transitions
Required
Cincotta, Richard and John Doces (2012). “The Age-structural Maturity Thesis: The Youth Bulge’s Influence on the Advent and Stability of Liberal Democracy,” in Jack A. Goldstone, Eric Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft, eds. Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics (Boulder: Paradigm).
Dyson, Tim (2013). “On Demographic and Democratic Transitions.” Population and Development Review 38: 83-102.
Recommended
Weber, Hannes. (2021). “Demography and Democracy,” in Sciubba, Jennifer, A Research Agenda for Political Demography (Edward Elgar), pp. 161-78
Goldstone, Jack A. (2021). “Population, Rebellion and Revolution,” in Sciubba, Jennifer, A Research Agenda for Political Demography (Edward Elgar), pp. 131-46
Goldstone, Jack A. (1991). Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World: Population Change and State Breakdown in England, France, Turkey, and China, 1600-1850 (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Goldstone, Jack A. (2015) “Demography and Social Movements,” in Donatella Della Porta and Mario Diani, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Goldstone, Jack A. and Larry Diamond (2020). “Demography and the Future of Democracy.” Perspectives on Politics.
Haghighat, Elhum (2018). Demography and Democracy: Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Sommer, Udi (2018). “Women, demography, and politics: how lower fertility rates lead to democracy.” Demography 55(2): 559-586.
Weber, H. (2013). “Demography and democracy: the impact of youth cohort size on democratic stability in the world.” Democratization 20(2): 335-357.
Wilson, Ben, and Tim Dyson (2018). “Democracy and the demographic transition.” Democratization 24(3): 594-612.
Essay Question
- How does the demographic transition influence democratisation?