Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2008
We consider the empirical relevance of two opposing hypotheses on the causality between income and democracy: The … Democratic Transition claims that rising incomes cause a transi¬ tion to democracy, whereas the Critical Junctures hypothesis … present international income differences have roots in the prehistoric past. Thus, we use prehistoric measures of biogeography …