Author: Ethan B. Kapstein | Journal of Democracy

Ethan B. Kapstein is Paul Dubrule Professor of Sustainable Development at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development, in Washington, D.C.

Articles by Ethan B. Kapstein:

October 2008, Volume 19, Issue 4

Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy: Why Democracies Fail

Nathan Converse
Ethan B. Kapstein

Many of today’s developing-world and postcommunist democracies are at risk of reversal. What are the key factors that lead to democratic collapse?

Books:

Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Francis Fukuyama

This book addresses such broad issues as whether democracy promotes inequality, the socioeconomic factors that drive democratic failure, and the basic choices that societies must make as they decide how to deal with inequality.