%0 Report %A Sunde, Uwe %A Cervellati, Matteo %A Fortunato, Piergiuseppe %T Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law %D 2007 %8 2007 Aug %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 2984 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2984 %X Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower. %K democracy %K inequality %K interactions %K rule of law %K institutions