... 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, ... World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Kyklos, Journal of Comparative Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, American Economic Review, Public ... sample sizes for columns 5 and 6 are very small, and the statistics indicate no association between democracy and economic growth once factor accumulation, endogeneity and regional effects are...