... provides data for 1996–2003.Given data limitations for other variables, it would only be possible to examine upuntil 2001, which would leave merely six years of data. By comparison, the ICRG data ... used in the literature. First, we use the Polity IV data (Marshall and Jaggers, 2000), which measures a country’s level of democracy and autocracy and creates an overall measure by subtracting the ... political and socialmodernization, and are hence more likely to be simultaneously democratic and lesscorrupt.6. Kurzman et al. (2002), for instance, compare cross-sections with pooled data using...