La Porta, Lopez de Silanes, Pop Eleches, and Shleifer: Judicial Checks and BalancesFrom WikiSummary, the Free Social Science Summary Database This summary needs formatting (i.e. "wikification"). Can you help us improve it? (Formatting help.) Please volunteer.
La Porta, Lopez de Silanes, Pop Eleches, and Shleifer. 2003. Judicial Checks and Balances. working paper. Controls: latitude, ethnolinguistic fractionalization, economic development (log GDP). But, log GDP and latitude have no hypothesized correlation with both x and y, so why include them? Omitted variables: REGIME TYPE. Clearly correlated with both judicial independence/review and with political/economic freedom. Problem: different variables are measured in different years. Problem: looks only at de jure constitutions, not de facto Selection on dependent variable: more than half of the sample is democracies. The dependent variables (democracy, freedom) and the independent variables (judicial review, independence) are both correlated with that. Keywords: Summaries Needing Wikification - Authors/La Porta, Rafael - Authors/Lopez de Silanes, Florencio - Authors/Pop Eleches, Cristian - Authors/Shleifer, Andrei - Political Science - Comparative Politics - Constitutions - Judicial Review - Freedom - Democracy - Bureaucracy - Measurement - Institutions/Origins - Quasi-Experimental Design |
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