... Press.Baum, Matthew A. and Lake, David A. (2003). “The Political Economy of Growth: Democracy and Human Capital,” American Journal of Political Science 47: 333–47.Beck, Nathaniel and Katz, Jonathan ... 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 latter ... we utilize anindex of democracy created by Alvarez, Cheibub, Limongi, and Przeworski(ACLP). Alvarez et al. (1996) argue that democracy should not be rated along a scale, as Polity and Freedom...