Are Political Freedoms Converging?
This article tests for convergence of freedom using Freedom House's (2002) indices of political rights and civil liberties in 136 countries from 1972 to 2001. Time-series tests, using structural breaks, are employed to test for stochastic and β-convergence. Cross-section tests are performed to exami...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 323 - 341 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
April 2004
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