Lin, Faqin; Sim, Nicholas C.S. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 1, pp. 143-159
In their seminal paper, Brückner and Ciccone (2011) document that a significant effect of democratic change may be triggered by negative transitory economic shocks, and that rainfall can open a democratic window of opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). As a complement, this paper uses...