Political Competition and Economic Growth

Issue Date January 2001
Volume 12
Issue 1
Page Numbers 58-72
file Print
arrow-down-thin Download from Project MUSE
external View Citation

Under many nondemocratic systems, good policy is bad politics, and bad policy helps leaders stay in office. The result is poorer performance in terms of economic growth.

Further Reading

Volume 18, Issue 1

Books in Review: Is China Stuck?

A review of China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei.

Volume 11, Issue 1

The Challenge of an Asymmetrical World

Volume 32, Issue 1

Democracy’s Development Dividend

The alleged tradeoff between economic development and political democracy-building is more fiction than fact. Indeed, progress toward fuller democratic governance can in fact enhance development.