Political scientists and economists increasingly agree that institutions may influence economic growth, but there is … institutions that protect private property rights may be expected to have positive effects on economic growth. We analyze data from … property has a significant, positive and robust effect on economic growth and that when outliers are excluded a configuration …

Does economic growth need Democracy? Or is it the non democratic rule that may pave the way to produce economic … of Democracy/ Non-Democratic rule with economic growth. Precisely this paper is an attempt to investigate the Economic … traditional methods of comparative institutional analysis are used to understand the mechanisms through which Democracy or …

inequality reduces income growth, but only in democracies. We find that their result is highly sensitive to the use of data … sources on both democracy and inequality. When we substitute more commonly-used and higher-quality data sources for democracy …

autocracy or democracy on economic growth. The aggregate growth of the economy under the autocracy remained better as compared …Pakistan showed a healthy growth rate of 5.6 percent during the entire history and faced many ups and down in the … economic growth due to dramatic changes in the political regimes. The literature shows mixed results regarding the impact of …

of some semi-democracies and semi-autocracies. Finally, it discusses the opportunity to test the growth-and-democracy …The paper provides a survey of theoretical and empirical literature on non-linear impact of democracy on economic … growth. First, it looks at two main approaches to the non-linearity: the U-shape and the inverse U-shape. Then it proceeds by …

insufficient attention in the literature. This review also compares DeLong’s approach with my own book "Voting theory for democracy …

Ministers. When we compare the SDE letter with Colignatus (2001, 2007b) “Voting theory for democracy” (VTFD) then we find that … SDE does not fit voting theory for democracy. Inspection of the material upon which the SDE letter is based also shows a …

The recent empirical growth literature has proposed three underlying fundamental determinants of economic growth … economic growth, which corroborates much of the empirical evidence in the existing literature. …

In this paper, we made an attempt to understand the costs and benefits of democracy for economic growth in Pakistan by … analyzing the relationship between democracy and its various measures. Using instrumental variables and RALS (rth … uncertain relationship between democracy and fiscal policy variables like expenditures, revenues and deficit; whereas democracy …