... Development and Cultural Change, Kyklos, Journal of Comparative Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, American Economic Review, Public Choice, Applied Economics, ... demands on areas such as education, justice and health, and encourage stable and long-run growth (Rodrik 1999, Lake and Baum 2001, Baum and Lake 2003). Opponents of democracy, other other hand, ... Fixed Effects model, those based on the Random Effects model and those based on Hunter and Schmidt procedure (see Lipsey and Wilson 2001 and Hunter and Schmidt 2004 for details).17 In a...