Arbeitspapier
Democratic transition, The: a study of the causality between income and the Gastil democracy index
The paper considers the transformation of the political system as countries pass through the Grand Transition from a poor developing country to a wealthy developed country. In the process most countries change from an authoritarian to a democratic political system. This is shown by using the Gastil democracy index from Freedom House. First, the basic pattern of correlations reveals that a good deal of the short- to medium-run causality appears to be from democracy to income. Then a set of extreme biogeographic instruments is used to demonstrate that the long-run causality is from income to democracy. The long-run result survives various robustness tests. We show how the Grand Transition view resolves the seeming contradiction between the long-run and the short- to medium-run effects.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1459
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought since 1925: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School
- Thema
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Paths of development
democracy
biogeography
Demokratisierung
Entwicklungsstufe
Sozialprodukt
Schätzung
Welt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Paldam, Martin
Gundlach, Erich
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
- (wo)
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Kiel
- (wann)
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2008
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Paldam, Martin
- Gundlach, Erich
- Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
Entstanden
- 2008
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