《资本主义发展与民主》考察了资本主义与民主的关系，或更准确地说，资本主义经济发展带来的社会转型与民主统治形式长期命运的关系。我们将审视已有的研究，提出新的理论框架，这个新框架能够对以往研究成果中显而易见的矛盾做出解释，并用三组广泛的历史比较来试验该框架——发达资本主义国家、拉丁美洲国家以及中美洲国家和加勒比岛国。

Dietrich Rueschemeyer is a Brown professor of sociology emeritus and Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. '32 Professor of International Studies emeritus. He currently works on state formation and historical antecedents of socioeconomic development.He was one of the founders of Brown's Center for the Comparative Study of Development, which merged into the Watson Institute. From 1997 to 2002, Professor Rueschemeyer led the Institute's Political Economy and Development Program.

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