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The graph and post are both somewhat misleading; countries with a Polity score of six or above are democracies, according to Polity's own classification. Nevertheless, the main point is correct (but hardly novel): there is a strong correlation between democracy and development.
Commented Aug 9, 2011 on Can you get rich without democracy? at Dani Rodrik's weblog
Can you get rich without democracy?
Yes if you are an individual, but probably not if you are an entire country. As the figure below shows, there are very few countries that have developed beyond $5,000 in 2005 PPP dollars without becoming democracies somewhere along the way (unless they are an oil economy). This scatter plot co...
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