Power and Persistence: The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy
研究发现，本土民主实践与当代代议制民主相关，但这种关联取决于本土群体在国家中的相对力量；强大的群体能塑造国家制度轨迹，而弱小的群体则不能。
This article documents that indigenous democratic practices are associated with contemporary representative democracy. The basic association is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous groups within a country; stronger groups were able to shape national regime trajectories, weaker groups were not. Our analyses suggest that institutions are more likely to persist if they are supported by powerful actors and less likely to persist if the existing power structure is disrupted by, e.g. colonisation. Our findings contribute to a growing literature on institutional persistence and change.