| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16832 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16832 |
| Reestablishing the Income-Democracy Nexus | |
| Jess Benhabib; Alejandro Corvalan; Mark M. Spiegel | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-02-25 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | A number of recent empirical studies have cast doubt on the "modernization theory" of democratization, which posits that increases in income are conducive to increases in democracy levels. This doubt stems mainly from the fact that while a strong positive correlation exists between income and democracy levels, the relationship disappears when one controls for country fixed effects. This raises the possibility that the correlation in the data reflects a third causal characteristic, such as institutional quality. In this paper, we reexamine the robustness of the income-democracy relationship. We extend the research on this topic in two dimensions: first, we make use of newer income data, which allows for the construction of larger samples with more within-country observations. Second, we concentrate on panel estimation methods that explicitly allow for the fact that the primary measures of democracy are censored with substantial mass at the boundaries, or binary censored variables. Our results show that when one uses both the new income data available and a properly non linear estimator, a statistically significant positive income-democracy relationship is robust to the inclusion of country fixed effects. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Development ; Other ; Economic Systems |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16832 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574506 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jess Benhabib,Alejandro Corvalan,Mark M. Spiegel. Reestablishing the Income-Democracy Nexus. 2011. |
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