Do Authoritarian Institutions Constrain? How Legislatures Affect Economic Growth and Investment

By Joseph G Wright. 2008

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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4. Edmund J. Malesky
5. J. Wallace
6. Jessica L. P. Weeks
7. P. Schuler
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4. J. Vreeland
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In Sociology and Political Science

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2. Stephen Weymouth
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4. Edmund J. Malesky
5. Nathan M. Jensen
6. J. Vreeland
7. J. Wallace
8. P. Schuler

Citations in the corpus

• Unbundling the Relationship between Authoritarian Legislatures and Political Risk (2014, background): “17 Wright 2008, 327.”
• Strongmen and Straw Men: Authoritarian Regimes and the Initiation of International Conflict (2012, background): “See also Wright (2008) on how legislatures can constrain authoritarian rulers.”
• The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: A Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly (2012, positive): “These American Political Science Review Vol. 106, No. 4 exchanges may involve direct benefits to particular legislators (Blaydes 2006; Lust-Okar 2006) or a limited say in policymaking (Boix and Svolik 2010; Gandhi 2009; Svolik 2009; Wright 2008).”
• Democracy and dictatorship revisited (2010, background): “Differences in authoritarian regimes account for variance in their economic growth and investment (Wright 2008), conflict behavior (Peceny et al. 2002; Lai and Slater 2006; Weeks 2008), political survival (Geddes 1999), prospects for democratization (Linz and Stepan 1996; Bratton and van de Walle…”
• Juking the Stats? Authoritarian Information Problems in China (2014, positive): “(F’note continued) from Joseph Wright via the Quality of Governance dataset, in which all years that are coded as one of the various types of dictatorship by Wright form the set of non-democratic country-years; other cases are coded as 0 (Teorell et al. 2011; Wright 2008).”
• Generals, Dictators, and Kings (2010, background): “Wright (2008) provides an updated and extended version of this dataset.”