【作者】西摩·马丁·李普塞特

【内容提要】

The conditions associated with the existence and stability of democratic
society have been a leading concern of political philosophy. In this paper the
problem is attacked from a sociological and behavioral standpoint, by presenting
a number of hypotheses concerning some social requisites for democracy,
and by discussing some of the data available to test these hypotheses. In its
concern with conditions-values, social institutions, historical events-external
to the political system itself which sustain different general types of political
systems, the paper moves outside the generally recognized province of political
sociology. This growing field has dealt largely with……

【关键词】political system，economic development，political legitimacy