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Tony Ingesson, svartvitt foto.

Tony Ingesson

Universitetslektor

Tony Ingesson, svartvitt foto.

The Martial Origins of Democracy : A Global Study of Military Conscription and Suffrage Extensions Since the Napoleonic Wars

Författare

  • Tony Ingesson
  • Mårten Lindberg
  • Johannes Lindvall
  • Jan Teorell

Summary, in English

This article examines the relationship between conscription (the compulsory enlistment of civilians for military service) and democracy. Using the best available cross-country comparable data on the history of conscription and democracy, we demonstrate that there is an empirical relationship between conscription and democratization, but the relationship is more complicated than commonly believed. Specifically, we find that conscription increases the likelihood of male suffrage extensions, but only in wartime (when the conscript army is mobilized). We find no relationship between conscription and democratization apart from extensions of suffrage. Nor do we find support for the hypothesis that conscription shelters democracies from coups.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2018-01

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

633-651

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Democratization

Volym

25

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)

Nyckelord

  • Conscription
  • coups
  • democracy
  • suffrage
  • wars

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1351-0347