Democratisation and Growth

This article challenges cross-sectional findings that democracy has a negligible effect on growth. We employ a new dataset of political transitions during the Third Wave of Democratisation and examine the within effect of democratisation in countries that abandoned autocracy and consolidated represe...

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Published in:The Economic journal (London) 2008-10, Vol.118 (532), p.1520-1551
Main Authors: Papaioannou, Elias, Siourounis, Gregorios
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Autocracy
Countries
Cross-national analysis
Democracy
Democratization
Economic growth
Economic growth models
Economic systems
Economic transitions
Estimates
Gross domestic product
Growth rates
Income level
P values
Per capita
Political change
Political development
Political economy
Political systems
Political transition
Politics
Polities
Presidential elections
Studies
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