Demonstrates the importance of governance and social institutions to economic performance

A theoretical and empirical examination of why political institutions and organizations matter in economic growth.

Conventional wisdom warns that unaccountable political and business agents can enrich a few at the expense of many. But logically extending this wisdom implies

"In evaluating democratic development, the study focuses particularly on the condition of parties and party systems. In relation to economic governance, the ide

Examines the political dimensions of economic policy making in the 1970s and 1980s.