This paper surveys the literature on how democracy affects economic growth. The paper first presents descriptive statistics and brief case-descriptions to illustrate how democracy and dictatorship may affect growth. Thereafter, it evaluates five central arguments on democracy and growth, before...

type="main" <title type="main">Objectives</title> <p>This article investigates whether economic growth and income level affect revolution attempts and successful revolutions. </section> <title type="main">Methods</title> <p>The article conducts a statistical analysis, mainly using panel data logit models, on a data set including 150 countries with time series from...</p></p>

This article investigates how political regimes influence property rights. The article reviews arguments for and against the hypothesis that democracy enhances property rights protection, and then conducts empirical tests. Democracy is likely endogenous to property rights protection. The...

"Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponents of this “stateness-first” argument anticipate that democratization before state building yields poor development outcomes. In this Element,...