Wealth and democracy: does economic development lead to political democracy? What are primary determinants of economic development that lead countries to democracies in Europe after World War 2?

THE WRITING-UP PROCESS
An outline for 3000 words essay
1. INTRODUCTION (500 words)
1.1 Research question (explanatory, descriptive, predictive, prescriptive and normative) and then your primary argument.
Significance (relevance)
Scope and limitation
1.4 Methods [ if qualitative]
2. LITERATURE REVIEW (1000 words)
Narrative, Scope, Systematic, Meta-analysis
3. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK (500 words)
3.1 Modernisation theory
A scholar (define the terms wealth, democracy)
Correlations (what of wealth affects what of democracy) indicators – based on this scholar’s work
Hypothesis measuring wealth with education and basic needs and measuring democracy with participation and rule of law.
Which type of hypothesis: explanatory, descriptive, predictive, prescriptive or normative [if quantitative 3.5 Methodology]
4. EDUCATION AND PARTICIPATION (250 words)
5. BASIC NEEDS AND RULE OF LAW (250 words)
6. CONCLUSION (500 words)
6.1 Review the main findings.
6.2 Tell us how you did it (hypothesis and methods) for future research.