The Agricultural and the Democratic Transitions Causality and the Roundup Model

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martín

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1406931

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“…In their critique of Acemoglu et al (2008), Gundlach and Paldam (2009) suggest that the inclusion of time and country fixed effects purged useful information in panel data estimation, thereby predisposing them to fail in their search for a relationship between income and democracy. Their argument highlights an important methodological dilemma: including country-specific fixed effects eliminates useful informative variation from the data, but excluding them introduces omitted variable bias.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A result of these divergent processes is that some countries end up democratic and rich while others remain autocratic and poor. While this appears plausible, their interpretation may rest on weak foundations: Gundlach and Paldam (2009) argue that Acemoglu et al (2008) find no relationship between democracy and income owing to the statistical methods they apply.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The state of democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Hoeffler

2012

International Area Studies Review

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Africa experienced a wave of democratization over the past 20 years and this increase in democracy, we find, positively and significantly affects income per capita. Our dynamic panel data results suggest that countries only slowly converge to their long-run income values as predicted by current democracy levels, however. African countries may therefore be currently too democratic relative to their income levels. In keeping with this possibility, a significant number of countries are experiencing political ‘back sliding’: elections are won by the use of illicit tactics, term limits on political leaders have been overturned and there have been unconstitutional seizures of power.

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Section: Methods and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The state of democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Fayad

Hoeffler

2012

International Area Studies Review

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“…The equivalence of the long-run and the cross-country pattern cannot be formally tested in our case as the CSscores are only available for 1½ decades. However, the equivalence holds for similar cases where data are available (see Gundlach and Paldam 2009b) so it is taken as the default.…”

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confidence: 99%