Small is Democratic: An Examination of State Size and Democratic Development (Comparative Studies of Democratization)

This study examines the relationship between state size and the formation and maintenance of democratic political systems. Using a cross-national, multiple case study of the Gambia in West Africa and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, in combination with the quantitative data set on all the nations in the world, the text examines the effects of smallness, when measured by population size, on a number of variables including: the probability of becoming and remaining democratic; access to information; political instability; and political violence.