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Causes of Change in Political-Economic Regimes

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In this chapter, a political-economic regime is defined by the set of relatively stable and long-lasting rules (including the legal system), rights and government organizations within and through which it operates.

An earlier version of this chapter was published in Gerken, L. (ed.) (1995) Competition among Institutions (London: Macmillan) pp. 65–88, and in different form under the title ‘Efficiency, Political-Economic Organization, and International Competition among States’ (1992) in the International Journal of the Unity of the Sciences, vol. 5, no. 4 (Winter), pp. 443–83.

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    Peter Bernholz

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Bernholz, P. (1998). Causes of Change in Political-Economic Regimes. In: Borner, S., Paldam, M. (eds) The Political Dimension of Economic Growth. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26284-7_4

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