Deals with the process of long-run development
Related to democracy project
Joint project with Erich Gundlach,
GIGA IAS and Hamburg University, Germany
Two Views on Development and Institutions
The Grand Transition vs the Primacy of Institutions
Kyklos 61, 65-100, 2008. {Also under Corruption Project}
Farewell critical junctures
Sorting out the long-run causality of income and democracy
European Journal of Political Economy 25, 340-54, 2009.
The empirical study uses the Polity data set
The transition of corruption:
From poverty to honesty
Economic Letters. 103, 146-48, 2009 {Also under Corruption Project project}
Analyzing causality between income and corruption in the long run.
The Democratic Transition
Short-run and long-run causality between income and the Gastil index
European Journal of Development Research 24 144-68, 2012
The empirical study uses the polity data set
The religious transition. A long-run perspective
Public Choice DOI 10.1007/s11127-012-0034-z, expected 2012 or 2013
An online appendix to the regious transition
An model of the religious transition
A consistent theoretical explanation of the religious transition.
Preliminary March 2012
The agricultural, demographic and democratic transitions
Two estimation models with the reverse results
Working paper Aarhus and Kiel. September 2010.
An essay on the Muslim Gap. Religiosity and the political system.
Chapter 10 pp 213-42 in R. Wintrobe and M. Ferrero, eds., 2009.
The Political Economy of Theocracy. Palgrave Macmillan
The spirits of capitalism and socialism. A cross-country study of ideology.
Public Choice 150, 469-98 {Also listed under Democracy papers}
With Christian Bjørnskov, Department of Economics, Faculty of Business, Aarhus University