Political Regimes and Economic Growth
探讨民主政治是促进还是阻碍经济增长，回顾支持和反对民主的论点，总结将政治体制纳入增长决定因素的统计研究，指出方法论问题，认为政治制度确实影响增长，但体制分类未能捕捉关键差异。
Does democracy in the political realm foster or hinder economic growth? Our discussion of this question begins with a review of arguments in favor of, and against, democracy. Then we summarize statistical studies in which political regime is included among determinants of growth and identify some methodological problems entailed in such studies. The conclusion is that social scientists know surprisingly little: our guess is that political institutions do matter for growth, but thinking in terms of regimes does not seem to capture the relevant differences.