caa a22 4500 477078346 CHVBK 20180405111444.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00114881 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00114881 New evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic growth [Elektronische Daten] [Jakob De Haan, Clemens Siermann] It is often maintained that democracy is a luxury which comes at a price in terms of subsequent slower increases in national living standards. However, various recent cross-section studies on economic growth have found evidence that lack of civil and political liberties is negatively correlated with economic growth. Using a new measure of democracy, which is based upon the number of years that a country can be regarded as a democracy, the robustness of this relationship is examined. Both direct and indirect effects of lack of democratic liberties are analysed. Our main conclusion is that the relationship between democracy and economic growth is not rubust. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 De Haan Jakob Department of Economics, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700, Groningen, AV aut Siermann Clemens Department of Economics, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700, Groningen, AV aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; gopher://gopher.wkap.nl 86/1-2(1996-01-01), 175-198 0048-5829 86:1-2<175 1996 86 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00114881 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00114881 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- De Haan Jakob Department of Economics, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700, Groningen, AV aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Siermann Clemens Department of Economics, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700, Groningen, AV aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; gopher://gopher.wkap.nl/ 86/1-2(1996-01-01), 175-198 0048-5829 86:1-2<175 1996 86 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer