Political Variables in Cross‐country Growth Analysis
Political Variables in Cross‐country Growth Analysis
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跨国增长分析中的政治变量
DOI：
10.1111/1467-6419.00029
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
A. Brunetti
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作者：
A. Brunetti
近年来跨国增长分析的兴起重新唤起了人们对经济增长的政治来源的实证研究兴趣。大量研究测试了增长回归中的政治变量，并提出了一套非常异质的变量来衡量各国政治制度中与经济相关的差异。本文区分了五类相关的政治变量：民主，政府稳定，政治暴力，政策波动性和政治的主观感知。对于这些类别中的每一个，质量标准，检测方法和最相关的研究结果，并进行了严格的讨论。本文的结论是，民主的措施是最不成功的政策波动性和政治的主观感受最成功的跨国增长回归的解释变量的措施。版权所有1997年由布莱克韦尔出版社有限公司
The recent boom in cross-country growth analysis has renewed the empirical interest in political sources of economic growth. A large number of studies have tested political variables in growth regressions and a very heterogeneous set of variables has been proposed to measure economically relevant differences in the political systems of countries. This paper distinguishes five categories of relevant political variables: democracy, government stability, political violence, policy volatility, and subjective perception of politics. For each of these categories, the specification, testing method, and results of the most relevant studies are presented and are critically discussed. The paper concludes that measures of democracy are least successful and measures of policy volatility and subjective perception of politics most successful as explanatory variables in cross-country growth regressions. Copyright 1997 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd