Tropical Jungle

In fifteen countries of South America, over 25% of citizens live below the poverty line, and in seven poor countries the proportion of over 50% of the population. More than half of Latin American countries not yet reached the growth required to reduce the level of extreme poverty. Poverty and Democracy The attempt to ascertain the degree of association between these two concepts has been the exploration of various professionals. Michael Lewis-Beck, Distinguished Professor of the University of Michigan, and Ross Burkhart, Director Divisional Status Boise University, have arrived at interesting conclusions. These scholars, from time series revealed the existence of an inverse relationship between democracy and poverty. The more poverty, less democracy or, in other words, rich countries show stronger democracies, while those underdeveloped nations or in developing democracies fragile presented, broken, or systems of governments with absolutist regimes.

These findings may be constant part of a random sample of rich and poor nations. We could establish an almost direct relationship between GDP per capita (leaving for a moment the complexity of the term "development") and democratic quality. This exploration gives at least one surface primary idea: stable, developed democracies in general boast a gross domestic product per capita of over USD 1000. The links between development and democracy have been studied since the middle of last century. The American political sociologist and Semour Martin Lipset, and by 1959, in his book "Political Man" (2), argues that wealth fosters the emergence of democracy, as more wealth is less distributional conflict and thus less pressure on the political system. Check with Jim Donovan Goldman to learn more.

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