caa a22 4500 467917620 CHVBK 20180406152907.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-0207-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-0207-9 Tsai Ming-Chang Department of Sociology, National Taipei University, 67 Sec.3 Min-Sheng E. Rd., 104, Taipei, Taiwan aut Macro-Structural Determinants of Political Freedom in Developing Countries: A Cross-National Analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Ming-Chang Tsai] This study attempts to evaluate the impacts of macro-structural factors on political freedom in developing countries (DCs). Political freedom is conceptualized as civil liberty and political rights the general population of a society can enjoy in influencing public policy. The Freedom House indexes are used as measures of freedom. In explaining the individual countries' differences in political freedom, this study considers the following factors: regime types, level of development, social structure, fractionalization, the state and military influence and external economic dependence. Empirical modeling of 118 DCs with regression techniques and ordered logit methods demonstrates that besides the regime effects, economic development generates favorable influence, while a large poor population and military spending produce negative impact on freedom. In the concluding section, we discuss the theoretical implications in comparative perspective. Springer, 2006 democracy nationallicence development nationallicence developing countries nationallicence political freedom nationallicence social structure nationallicence Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 76/2(2006-04-01), 317-340 0303-8300 76:2<317 2006 76 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-0207-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-0207-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tsai Ming-Chang Department of Sociology, National Taipei University, 67 Sec.3 Min-Sheng E. Rd., 104, Taipei, Taiwan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 76/2(2006-04-01), 317-340 0303-8300 76:2<317 2006 76 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer