Abstract
Do better political rights yield more economic development? By addressing the econometric challenges plaguing this question, we find support for a positive impact of rights on development. For a significant grouping of countries the association is nonlinear: the positive impact of rights is particularly strong at low rights levels; it is either absent or negative in an intermediate rights range; and returns to a moderate positive impact at high levels of rights. There is also evidence to suggest that transitions from autocratic political dispensations are associated with significant negative output shocks.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 187-206 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | World Development |
| Volume | 51 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Development
- Sociology and Political Science
- Economics and Econometrics
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