دانلود کتاب Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence

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Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
1.1 Background......Page 22
1.2 A Basic Puzzle......Page 24
1.3 An Analytical Structure......Page 30
1.4 Outline of the Book......Page 34
2 The Fundamental Political Environment for Economic Growth......Page 36
2.1 The Basic Model......Page 37
2.2 A Theoretical Discussion......Page 42
2.3 Some Casual Observations......Page 49
2.4 Summary and Policy Implications......Page 57
3 Measuring Political Freedom, Stability, and Certainty......Page 60
3.1 Political Freedom and Liberal Democracy......Page 61
3.2 Political Stability/Instability......Page 72
3.3 Policy Certainty/Uncertainty......Page 78
3.4 Joint Examination of Freedom, Stability, and Certainty......Page 81
4 Testing the Political Determinants of Long-Run Economic Growth......Page 86
4.1 Methodology......Page 87
4.2 The Statistical Model......Page 90
4.3 Empirical Results......Page 94
4.4 Continental Effects......Page 103
4.5 A Case Study: Thailand......Page 107
4.6 Summary and Policy Implications......Page 110
5 Democracy, Stability, and Growth: A Simultaneous Approach......Page 114
5.1 A Simultaneous-Equations Model......Page 116
5.2 Data and Specification......Page 124
5.3 Empirical Analysis: Three Sets of Nested Relationships......Page 130
5.4 Summary and Policy Implications......Page 140
6 Political Institutions and Inflation: An Evaluation of Three Models......Page 144
6.1 Political Freedom, Stability, and Capacity: Three Models......Page 147
6.2 Preliminary Empirical Evidence......Page 157
6.3 Model Specification and Data......Page 162
6.4 Empirical Evidence......Page 168
6.5 Summary and Policy Implications......Page 174
7 Political Institutions and Private Investment......Page 178
7.1 The Political Environment of Private Investment......Page 179
7.2 Specification and Data......Page 190
7.3 Empirical Evidence: Domestic Private Investment......Page 195
7.4 Empirical Evidence: Foreign Direct Investment......Page 201
7.5 Summary and Policy Implications......Page 205
8 The Political Economy of Human-Capital Accumulation......Page 210
8.1 Political Systems, Political Stability, and Human Capital......Page 211
8.2 Measurement of Human Capital......Page 219
8.3 Some Preliminary Data on Education and Democracy......Page 224
8.4 Model Specification......Page 226
8.5 Empirical Analysis......Page 228
8.6 Summary and Policy Implications......Page 231
9 Democracy and Income Inequality Reconsidered......Page 234
9.1 Theories and Findings on Democracy and Income Distribution......Page 235
9.2 Measurement Issues......Page 245
9.3 Model Specification......Page 249
9.4 Empirical Evidence......Page 262
9.5 Summary and Policy Implications......Page 269
10 Political Freedom and Economic Freedom......Page 272
10.1 Definitions and Examples......Page 273
10.2 Literature Review......Page 276
10.3 Method and Data......Page 281
10.4 Empirical Results......Page 284
10.5 A Case Study: Indonesia......Page 289
10.6 Summary and Policy Implications......Page 293
11 Births and Politics......Page 296
11.1 Literature Review......Page 297
11.2 A Political-Economic Model......Page 300
11.3 Empirical Results......Page 302
11.4 A Case Study: China......Page 304
11.5 Summary and Policy Implications......Page 314
12 Conclusions......Page 316
12.1 Summaries of Major Findings......Page 317
12.2 Some Policy Implications......Page 320
12.3 Related and Future Research......Page 328
Appendix 3.A: Political-Rights and Civil-Liberties Indices......Page 334
Appendix 3.B: Institutionalized Democracy Index......Page 336
Appendix 4.A: A Brief Review of the Literature on Democracy, Stability, and Growth......Page 340
Appendix 7.A: Weighted Scores in the World-Event Interaction Survey Data Set......Page 344
Appendix 9.A: Coverage of Income Distribution by the Gini Coefficient......Page 348
Appendix 10.A: Measures of Economic Freedom......Page 352
Notes......Page 354
References......Page 370
D......Page 400
H......Page 401
P......Page 402
T......Page 403
W......Page 404