Comeau, Ludovic - In: Eastern Economic Journal 29 (2003) 1, pp. 1-21
political regimes for economic performance. Research on democracy's effect on growth is inconclusive. At the same time, a few … studies and cases find authoritarianism to display growth-enhancing attributes. This paper revisits the issue, finding that … a tradition of democracy. Sociopolitical stability is also shown to be a necessary complementary condition. Economic …