The Nexus Between Urbanisation and Human Empowerment: Income Group Based Findings of Bidirectional Causality

• Autorzy: Christos Kollias , Panayiotis Tzeremes
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The economic and social drivers of democratisation and the emergence and establishment of democratic institutions are longstanding themes of academic discourse. Within this broad body of literature, it has been argued that the process of urbanisation is also conducive to the emergence and consolidation of democracy through a number of different channels. Cities offer better access to education and facilitate organised public action and the demand for more democratic rule and respect of human rights. The nexus between urbanisation and human rights is the theme that is taken up in the present paper. Using a sample of 123 countries for the period 1981-2011, the paper examines empirically the association between urbanisation and human empowerment using the Cingranelli-Richards Index. In broad terms, the findings reported herein do not point to a strong nexus across all income groups. Nevertheless, there is evidence suggesting the presence of such a statistically significant positive association in specific cases. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

PL

Urbanizacja; Dochody ludności; Modele autoregresji

EN

Urbanisation; People's income; Autoregression models

• Czasopismo: Problemy Rozwoju Miast
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: 64
• Strony: 5-15

Twórcy

autor

Christos Kollias

• University of Thessaly, Greece

autor

Panayiotis Tzeremes

• University of Thessaly, Greece

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DOI

10.2478/udi-2019-0019