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SUMMARY:Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach - Pr
 ofessor Ben Ansell\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Helen Williams
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Ben Ansell\n\nResearch on the relationship 
 between inequality\, development\, and regime change has seen a recent sur
 ge of interest. But while many argue that inequality harms the prospects o
 f democracy because wealthy elites fear that the poorer majority will use 
 the vote to 'soak the rich' (for example\, works by Boix\, 2003 and Acemog
 lu and Robinson\, 2006) this book presents a different explanation that id
 entifies the real tension as existing between property and autocracy\, not
  property and democracy. Instead\, it is fear of the autocratic state by p
 olitically disenfranchised\, but economically rising groups who are wary o
 f the power of autocratic elites to expropriate their assets that drive ef
 forts at democratic transitions and regime change.\n\nProfessor Ansell is 
 Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions in the Department of Poli
 tics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. His initial 
 research focus was the politics of education\, with his book From the Ball
 ot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Politics of Education\, published
  by Cambridge University Press in 2010 and winning the 2011 William H. Rik
 er prize for best book in political economy. His most recently published b
 ook\, coauthored with David Samuels\, Inequality and Democratization: An E
 lite-Competition Approach won the 2015 Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best b
 ook in politics\, government and international affairs from the American P
 olitical Science Association and the 2015 William H. Riker prize for best 
 book in political economy.
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site)\, Room 138
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