TY - RPRT AU - Sunde, Uwe AU - Cervellati, Matteo AU - Fortunato, Piergiuseppe TI - Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law PY - 2007/Aug/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 2984 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2984 AB - 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. KW - democracy KW - inequality KW - interactions KW - rule of law KW - institutions ER -