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dc.contributor.authorPaldam, Martinen
dc.contributor.authorGundlach, Erichen
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-24-
dc.date.accessioned2009-04-09T07:48:13Z-
dc.date.available2009-04-09T07:48:13Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/24853-
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aKiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) |cKielen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aKiel Working Paper |x1459en
dc.subject.jelB25en
dc.subject.jelO1en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordPaths of developmenten
dc.subject.keyworddemocracyen
dc.subject.keywordbiogeographyen
dc.subject.stwDemokratisierungen
dc.subject.stwEntwicklungsstufeen
dc.subject.stwSozialprodukten
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwWelten
dc.titleDemocratic transition, The: a study of the causality between income and the Gastil democracy index-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn58364628Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:ifwkwp:1459en

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