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Regime, Polity, and Economic Growth: The Latin American Experience
Author(s) -
FENG YI
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
growth and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1468-2257
pISSN - 0017-4815
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00162.x
Subject(s) - polity , authoritarianism , latin americans , democracy , civil liberties , military government , politics , government (linguistics) , economics , political science , development economics , government spending , political economy , economic system , law , market economy , linguistics , philosophy , welfare
This article conducts a time series cross‐sectional analysis of Latin American countries over the period of 1982–1988; it examines the relationship between regime type (civilian/military) and polity type (democratic/authoritarian) on one hand, and economic growth on the other, taking advantage of a specially designed econometric method and the availability of large economic and political data sets. The conclusion from this study is that the economy grows faster under a civilian government than under a military government, and both political rights and civil liberties contribute to growth.