The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis

IF 1 2区 社会学 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Journal of Human Rights Pub Date : 2022-11-17 DOI:10.1080/14754835.2022.2127311
Demet Yalcin Mousseau, M. Mousseau
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Abstract Studies have observed a correlation of wealth with democracy, yet it remains unclear how wealth can cause or stabilize democracy. Recent research has shown how the causal mechanism may lie in the economic norm of contracting, as democracy becomes valued as the best means for sustaining a nonpredatory government that enforces contracts with impartiality. We extend this research to investigate if norms of economic contracting in societies give rise to, and strengthen, the democratic civil liberties of free speech and association. Drawing on the World Bank’s Financial Structure Database and data on civil liberties from the Varieties of Democracy dataset, analyses of most countries from 1961 to 2019 show that the economic norms of contracting have significant positive effects on the civil liberties of free speech and association and press freedom. With instrumental variable regression, we statistically isolate the causation from contracting to these civil liberties. This study pinpoints that contracting economic activities may strengthen the foundation of civil liberties in countries.
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民主公民自由的经济起源:跨国分析
摘要研究已经观察到财富与民主的相关性,但财富如何导致或稳定民主仍不清楚。最近的研究表明,因果机制可能存在于合同的经济规范中,因为民主被视为维持一个公正执行合同的非编辑政府的最佳手段。我们将这项研究扩展到调查社会中的经济契约规范是否产生并加强了言论和结社自由的民主公民自由。根据世界银行的金融结构数据库和民主多样性数据集中的公民自由数据,对1961年至2019年大多数国家的分析表明,契约的经济规范对公民言论自由、结社自由和新闻自由产生了重大的积极影响。通过工具变量回归,我们从统计上分离出了与这些公民自由签约的因果关系。这项研究指出,承包经济活动可能会加强各国公民自由的基础。
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