Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions Between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law
10 Pages Posted: 5 Sep 2007
Date Written: August 2007
Abstract
Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower.
Keywords: inequality, democracy, institutions, rule of law, interactions
JEL Classification: O43, P48, P14
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?
Recommended Papers
-
Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development
By Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato, ...
-
Consensual and Conflictual Democratization
By Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato, ...
-
Inequality, Democracy, Institutional Quality, and Fiscal Redistribution
By Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein