Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. The Role of Migration in the Process of Development and Democratization

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Economics - Macro-economics, general, grade: 1,7, University of Leipzig (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät), language: English, abstract: The following thesis will examine the process of Development and Democratization. More precisely, it will prove whether Albert O. Hirschman's "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" (EVL)-framework allows for a more coherent explanation of the transitional mechanisms.In 1992 Paul Krugman raised the motion to rethink and resurrect the "high development theory" of the years prior to 1960. His "counter-counterrevolution" opposed the dominant neoclassical approach towards development and urged the scholarship to leave the intellectual parochialism and to take up the thread, laid out by scientists like Rosenstein-Rodan orHirschman.Down to the present day, the scientific community of the development-science hasn't been able to produce a "universally accepted doctrine or paradigm. Instead (there is) a continually,evolving pattern of insights and understandings that together provide the basis for learning the possibilities of contemporary development [...]."The four predominant theories in the history, namely Modernization Theory, Structural-Change, Dependency School and the Neoclassical Market-Fundamentalism will be introducedand shown how the role of migration is integrated respectively.Hereinafter the EVL-concept will be explained and whether it can give further insights into the nexus of development and democracy.The set-up hypothesis, which will be tested, is the following: The initial point is an authoritarian regime. Once a country achieved a certain threshold of development, the people do notonly have the inherently volition of freedom but also the ability to articulate their demands. If we…