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Political Regimes and Economic Growth

Adam Przeworski; Fernando Limongi · Journal of Economic Perspectives 7(3), 51–69 · 1993

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Type: Article
Author: Adam Przeworski; Fernando Limongi
Identifier: DOI 10.1257/jep.7.3.51
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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.