Democracy versus Development Debate
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2019, Vol 24, Issue 1
Abstract
There are floods of debates among scholars over whether democracy drives development or development that drives democracy. The first stream of the literature argues that democracy is a precondition for development because of its accountability mechanism, open participation, checks and balances, rule of law, respects for human rights and good governance. Arguing further, the scholars assert that democracy promotion is prior to expansion of economic development, pointing out that empirical evidence indicates that democracy has consistently out-performed non democracies in terms of indicators of socioeconomic wellbeing. The second stream of literature on the other hand maintains that development drives democracy, anchoring their argument on the fact that economic development leads to political decay giving rooms for political instability which later moves toward democracy through and after institutionalization. Furthering this debate, the scholars argued that the stability of democracy is dependent on certain socio-economic conditions such high GNP or GDP per capita, wide spread and high educational level coupled with high level of urbanization. The data for the study is gathered from secondary sources while content analysis and narrative analytical technique is used for data analysis. The theoretical framework that guided the analysis of the study is democracy first, development later theory. Pitching tent with the first strand of the literature, the study argues that democracy is a Sequa non for development due to the overwhelming empirical evidence supporting the school of thought.
Authors and Affiliations
Humphrey N. Nwobashi Ph. D, Anthony Itumo Ph. D
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