Polity Atlas
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Developmental States

Stephan Haggard · Cambridge University Press (Elements in the Politics of Development) · 2018

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Stephan Haggard
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DOI 10.1017/9781108552738
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2026-09-01

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DisputedWhether authoritarian rule helped East Asian developmental states grow is disputed: Japan's developmental state was democratic, Przeworski and Limongi (1993) found no clear effect of regime type on growth in statistical studies, and Acemoglu and colleagues (2019) estimate that democratisation raises GDP per capita in the long run.