On the primacy of politics in development / Adrian Leftwich -- Towards a theory of developmental democracy / Richard L …. Sklar -- Democracy and development / Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane -- Governance, democracy and development / Geoffrey … Hawthorn and Paul Seabright -- Development, democracy and civil society in Botswana / John D. Holm -- Dilemmas of democratic …

This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely … neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it … altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has occurred whereby culture is now more widely seen as being more central to the …

syndrome of culturally embedded democracy in rich countries only. Using these climato-economic niches of culture, we then …In a 104-nation study we first demonstrate that cultural self-expression, individualism and democracy languish in poor … estimate how unarrested global warming in conjunction with unaltered economic growth would affect democratic culture in 138 …