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Introduction Manus I. Midlarsky; Part I. The Early Bases of Democracy:1. Democracy before Athens Kenneth A. Bollen and Pamela M. Paxton; 2.Environmental influences on democracy: aridity, warfare and land inequalityManus I. Midlarsky; 3. Democracy and proto-modernity: technoecologicalinfluences on the growth of political and civil rights Edward Crenshaw; 4.Inequality and democracy in the anthropolitical record Melvin Ember, Carol R.Ember and Bruce Russett; Part II. Economic Development and Thresholds ofDemocracy: 5. Economic determinants of democracy Edward N. Muller; 6.Informational inequality and democracy in the New World Order Miles Simpson;7. Modernization and thresholds of democracy: evidence for a common path andprocess Michael Coppedge; 8. Markets and inequality in the transition fromstate socialism Victor Nee and Raymond V. Liedka; Part III. Responses toDemocratization: 9. Democracy and inequality: tracking welfare spending inSingapore, Taiwan, and South Korea Steve Chan; 10. Political regimes andindustrial wages: a cross-national analysis Mark Gasiorowski; 11. Socialresponses to neoliberal reforms in Eastern Europe in the 1990s BelaGreskovits; 12. Market, state, and citizenship in new democracies GiuseppeDiPalma; 13. Conclusion: paradoxes of democracy Manus I. Midlarsky.