This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

cleavages in society (Hegre et al, 2003; Bhagwati, 2004; Mousseau and Mousseau, 2008; Dreher et al, 2008). -- growth ; democracy …

Democracy's indicators and Economic Growth. Protection of the Private property rights requires, first and foremost, due … the free speech; religious freedom and other "political rights" should be respected. Democracy, as political competition …

Evidence from a novel measure of democracy (SVMDI) based on Support Vector Machines highlights a robust positive … relationship between democracy and economic growth. We argue that the ambiguity in recent studies can be traced back to the neglect … of the information in the equation in levels and the lack of sufficient sensitivity of traditional democracy indicators …

increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …