Income and Democracy : Lipset's Law Revisited /

We revisit Lipset's law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using dynamic and heterogeneous panel data estimation techniques, we find a significant and negative relationship between income and democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trig...

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Hovedforfatter: Hoeffler, Anke
Andre forfattere: Bates, Robert H., Fayad, Ghada
Format: Tidsskrift
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Serier:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/295
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