Symposium on Democracy and Development
评论了民主对发展影响的学术研究，指出许多研究受政治情绪影响，而Przeworski和Limongi的论文基于理论和统计证据得出不确定结论：我们不知道民主是促进还是阻碍经济增长。
cademic fashions often follow the public political mood. In a period when euphoric public commentators have announced "the end of history" in the triumph of capitalist democracy, one sees an increasing number of scholarly studies attempting to show, often on the basis of crosscountry statistical evidence and a bit of wishful thinking, a positive effect of democracy on development. It is in this context refreshing to see the agnostic results reported by Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi in their paper. On the basis of their review of the theoretical arguments and statistical studies they conclude rather bluntly: "We do not know whether democracy fosters or hinders economic growth."