Democracy and Development:
A Historical Perspective


Principal authors:
John Gerring, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Strom Thacker

Contributing authors:
Caroline Beer, David S. Brown, Kevin Gallagher,
Peter Kingstone, Matthew Lange, Aseema Sinha

Forward:
Amartya Sen
 
Corresponding author:
John Gerring
Department of Political Science
Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston MA 02215
jgerring@bu.edu

Draft:  April 11, 2007

Table of Contents

Foreward
1. Introduction
2. Methodological Issues


I. ECONOMIC POLICIES 
3. Growth
4. Economic Policy
5. Infrastructure
6. Policy Continuity

 
II. NONECONOMIC POLICIES
7. Environmental Policy
8. Education
9. Public Health
10. Gender Equality 


III. CASE STUDIES 
11. Brazil
12. India
13. Mauritius

 
IV. CONCLUSIONS
14. The Statistical Findings
15. General Conclusions


References