Deals with the process of long-run development
Joint project with Erich Gundlach,
GIGA IAS and Hamburg University, Germany
Related to democracy project
Main papers. New versions are published in:
The Grand Pattern of Development and the Transition of Institutions.
Cambridge UP 2021
(1) Two Views on Development and Institutions
The Grand Transition vs the Primacy of Institutions
Kyklos 61, 65-100, 2008. {Also under Corruption Project}
(2) Farewell critical junctures
Sorting out the long-run causality of income and democracy
European Journal of Political Economy 25, 340-54, 2009.
The empirical study uses the Polity data set
(3) The transition of corruption:
From poverty to honesty
Economic Letters 103, 146-48, 2009 {Also under Corruption Project project}
Analyzing causality between income and corruption in the long run.
(4) The Democratic Transition
Short-run and long-run causality between income and the Gastil index
European Journal of Development Research 24 144-68, 2012
The empirical study uses the polity data set
The agricultural, demographic and democratic transitions
Two estimation models with the reverse results
Working paper Aarhus and Kiel. September 2010.
After many revisions and discussions the following three papers emerged:
(5) Jumps into democracy
Integrating short and the long run in the Democratic Transition
Kyklos 71(3), 456-81 July 2018
Net Appendix, December 2017
(6) A study of triggering events
When do political regimes change?
Public Choice182(1/2), 181-99 january 2020
(7) A hump-shaped transitional growth path as
a general pattern of long-run development
Economic Systems 44(2) article 10825 September 2020
(8) Does system instability harm development?
A comparative empirical study of the long run
Pt working paper
July 2019
(9) The Transition of Corruption. Institutions and dynamics
European Journal of Political Economy 67(2) article 101952 March 2021
Net Appendix
See also: Papers after 2021 book Papers on corruption Papers on religious transition
An essay on the Muslim Gap. Religiosity and the political system.
Chapter 10 pp 213-42 in R. Wintrobe and M. Ferrero, eds., 2009.
The Political Economy of Theocracy. Palgrave Macmillan
(11) The spirits of capitalism and socialism. A cross-country study of ideology.
Public Choice 150, 469-98 {Also listed under Democracy papers}
With Christian Bjørnskov, Department of Economics, Faculty of Business, Aarhus University