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Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950–1990

Introduction 1. Democracies and dictatorships 2. Dynamic of political regimes 3. Political regimes and economic growth 4. Political instability and economic growth 5. Political regimes and population…
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Classifying political regimes

This study presents a classification of political regimes as democracies and dictatorships for a set of 141 countries between 1950 or the year of independence and 1990. It improves existing…
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The logic of comparative social inquiry

Modernization: Theories and Facts

What makes political regimes rise, endure, and fall? The main question is whether the observed close relation between levels of economic development and the incidence of democratic regimes is due to…
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Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America

Introduction A prologue: the fall of communism 1. Democracy 2. Transitions to democracy 3. Capitalism and socialism 4. The political dynamics of economic reform References Author index Subject index.
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The effect of IMF programs on economic growth

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Authoritarian Institutions and the Survival of Autocrats

Why do some autocrats survive for decades, and others fall soon after taking power? The authors argue that when authoritarian rulers need to solicit the cooperation of outsiders or deter the threat…
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What Makes Democracies Endure?

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Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and

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Cooperation, Cooptation, and Rebellion Under Dictatorships

Dictatorships are not all the same: some are purely autocratic but many exhibit a full panoply of seemingly democratic institutions. To explain these differences, we develop a model in which…
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