Libman, Alexander - In: Empirical Economics 43 (2012) 3, pp. 1321-1352
democracy on economic performance, providing evidence of a non-linear relationship between democracy and economic growth …. Regions with high levels of democracy, as well as strong autocracies, perform better than hybrid regimes. Second, this article … considers the influence of the size of the bureaucracy on economic outcomes and confirms the “grabbing hand” view on bureaucracy …