BenYishay, Ariel; Betancourt, Roger - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 552-568
of civil liberties, which are at the core of modern democracy, in two ways. We identify four fundamental sources of … potential differences in the evolution of political rights and civil liberties. We present systematic, robust and varied … accounting for the modernization hypothesis. We obtain two noteworthy empirical results: civil liberties exhibit greater …