AUTOKRACIE A OCHRANA VLASTNICKÝCH PRÁV

• Authors: Mikula Štěpán

Title variants

EN

Autocracies and property rights protection

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper uses a simple econometric model to test a hypothesis of the dependency of the level of property rights protection in autocratic regimes on a probability that the ruling power group stays in power. The model also tests if there is a significant relationship between a communist ideological orientation of a ruling group and property rights protection. The model is based on cross-sectional data over the period of 1984 – 2007, and its results indicate that the relationship between the level of property rights protection and the probability that a ruling power group stays in power is systematically significant only in 1980s; therefore the hypothesis does not seem to be generally valid. The outcomes of the model do not even support the significance of a communist ideological orientation for the level of property rights protection.

Keywords

EN

AUTOCRACY; PROPERTY; RIGHTS PROTECTION; INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 528 – 543

Contributors

author

Mikula Štěpán

• Masarykova univerzita, Ekonomicko-správní fakulta, Katedra ekonomie, Lipová 507/41a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic