Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis

2009

283 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7feffbb532a552ab090ca0ae54ddb7c89bb7b951

Citations in the corpus

• Institutions, Human Capital and Development: Online Appendix (2014, unknown): “In related empirical work, Acemoglu et al. (2005, 2008b, 2009) use a standard panel data model (regressing levels on levels with time and country fixed effects) and find no evidence of a causal effect of income or measures of educational 8 It is particularly unfortunate that there is no clear…”
• Democracy, Development, and the International System (2011, unknown): “Indeed, the third section shows that, using the full universe of sovereign countries since the early nineteenth century, income level matters for democracy— contradicting recent work on the causes of democracy (Acemoglu et al. 2008, 2010).”
• Oil Price Shocks, Income, and Democracy (2012, unknown): “Moreover, the augmented Dickey-Fuller test does not reject the hypothesis of a unit root in oil price levels at the 90% confidence level (but rejects the hypothesis of a unit root in the first-differenced oil price at the 99% confidence level).”
• Economic Development, Violent Leader Removal, and Democratization (2012, unknown): “In the second challenge, Acemoglu et al. (2008, 2009) claim that development and democracy bear no causal relationship to each other, but are instead mutually caused by institutional history.”
• A Farewell to Critical Junctures: Sorting Out Long-Run Causality of Income and Democracy (2009, unknown): “16 Acemoglu et al. (2005b, 2007) . We do not think that evidence based on model (5) with a short”
• Inference for Iterated GMM Under Misspecification (2021, unknown): “(2) The difference between the Arellano-Bond and misspecification-robust standard errors.”
• Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive? (2019, unknown): “For example, as discussed earlier, “critical junctures” in national paths of political development may have influenced the current presence of democracy and the contemporary nature of the political culture (e.g., Acemoglu et al. 2009).”
• Income and democracy: Evidence from system GMM estimates (2012, unknown): “This alternative view is dubbed the “critical junctures hypothesis” (for a short review see Acemoglu et al., 2009).”
• Determinants of Constitutional Change: Why Do Countries Change Their Form of Government? (2010, unknown): “Acemoglu et al. (2007) purport to show that this is not true.”
• Democracy Does Cause Growth (2019, unknown): “In addition, confirming that this is a robust property of the data, we also confirm that, consistent with Acemoglu et al. (2008, 2009), the level of GDP has no effect on democratizations, but it does have some impact on transitions to nondemocracy. (3)A smaller literature focuses on the effects of d”