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Are all democracies equally good? The role of interactions between political environment and inequality for rule of law
Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2984
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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Demokratie
Rechtsstaat
Soziale Ungleichheit
Politische Stabilität
Institutionalismus
Welt
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Sunde, Uwe
Cervellati, Matteo
Fortunato, Piergiuseppe
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Sunde, Uwe
- Cervellati, Matteo
- Fortunato, Piergiuseppe
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2007
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