Citation

Tilly C. Socio. Theor. 2003; 21(1): 37-43.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, American Sociological Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1467-9558.00174

PMID

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Abstract

Reversions from democratic to undemocratic regimes have often occurred historically and continue to occur frequently. Both increases in categorical inequality across a regime's subject population and declines in the insulation of public politics from categorical inequality tend to de-democratize regimes. A general account of democratization and de-democratization yields a series of conjectures concerning the processes by which changes in categorical inequality threaten democracy.

Language: en