... 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 ... Huntington and Dominguez (1975) and Kohli (1986). 22 Other studies excluded by our selection criteria include Cutright (1963), Dick (1974), McKinlay and Cohan (1975), Russet and Monsen (1975) and...