TY - JOUR AU - Walsh, Patrick AB - _)PS- 22 3 POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER 228 3 New Tools and New Tests Some say that democracy ,s more likely to survive uncei- in Comparative Political parliamentary governments. Economy That result is not robus. to cf-e use of different variables fror- the Database of PoIiticai The Database of Political Institutions Institutions, a large new cross-country database :nat may illuminate many ousher Thorsteni Beck issues affecting and affect-(, George Clarke by political institutions Alberto Groff Philip Keefer Patrick Walsh The World Bank Development Research Group Regulation and Competition Policy U February 2000 Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER 2283 Summary findings This paper introduces a large new cross-country database Stepan and Skach, for example, find that democracy is on political institutions: the Database on Political more likely to survive under parliamentary governments Institutions (DPI). than presidential systems. But this result is not robust to Beck, Clarke, Groff, Keefer, and Walsh summarize key the use of different variables from the DPI, which raises variables (many of them new), compare this data set with puzzles for f'uture research. others, and explore the range of issues for which the data Similarly, Roubini TI - New Tools and New Tests in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions JF - Policy Research Working Papers DA - 2000-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/new-tools-and-new-tests-in-comparative-political-economy-the-database-Ohi03KVNQw DP - DeepDyve ER -