An empirical investigation of the determinants of democracy: Trade, aid and the neighbor effect

Stefan Csordas () and Markus Ludwig

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 110, issue 3, 235-237

Abstract: Empirical investigation by dynamic panel data models of the determinants of democracy shows a strong positive neighbor effect. Foreign aid is stabilizing but not inducing democratic development, while there is no significant relationship to openness to trade and income.

Keywords: Democracy; Foreign; aid; Neighbor; effect; Panel; data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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