Are all democracies equally good? The role of interactions between political environment and inequality for rule of law

Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato () and Uwe Sunde

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant interaction effect between democracy and equality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with better rule of law when inequality is lower.

Date: 2008
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Published in Economics Letters 3 99(2008): pp. 552-556

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