two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public … interests of the two land classes, we find, based on 30-year panel data describing the democratization of Indian villages, that … democratization in villages with a larger landless population share shifted resources away from public irrigation, secondary schools …

democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 …

argue that the plebiscite contributed to the emergence of one party rule the twenty years following democratization …