Political Governance plays an important role in economic development. We use text-analysis techniques to construct a Strict Party Governance (SPG) Index and study it's relationship with China’s economic development. Empirical results show that SPG has significantly improved China’s economic...

This paper examines the determinants of military expenditures with a special focus on political regimes for more than 130 countries for the period of 1963–2000 by employing a dynamic panel data analysis. The paper aims at contributing to the literature by utilizing a recently constructed...