PUBLICATIONS

@workingpaper{Asongu2016cd,
title = {Law, Politics and the Quality of Government in Africa},
author = {Jacinta Nwachukwu C Simplice A. Asongu},
editor = {African 2016 Governance and Development Institute WP/16/019},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/Law-politics-and-the-quality-of-government-in-Africa.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
abstract = {This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on Instrumental variable Two-Stage-Least Squares and Fixed Effects with data from 38 African countries for the period 1994-2010. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income-levels, legal-origins, religious-dominations and press-freedom to account for government quality dynamics, of corruption-control, government effectiveness, voice and accountability, political-stability, regulation quality and the rule of law. Findings show that democracy has an edge over autocracy while the latter and polity overlap. As a policy implication, democracy once initiated should be accelerated to edge the appeals of authoritarian regimes.},
keywords = {Law; Politics; Democracy; Government Policy; Development},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}

@workingpaper{Asongu2011bc,
title = {Law, Democracy and the Quality of Government in Africa},
author = {Simplice A Asongu},
editor = {African 2011 Governance and Development Institute WP/11/018},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/Law-democracy-and-the-quality-of-government-in-Africa.pdf},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-12-01},
abstract = {This paper examines the big questions of African comparative politics. It assesses the
interaction of three crucial components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and
quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented
with income-levels, legal-origins, religious-dominations and press-freedom levels to account for
government quality dynamics of corruption-control, government-effectiveness, voice and
accountability, political-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy
has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A democracy that takes into
account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a
democracy that takes into account the voice of the minority (polity) is worse in government
quality than autocracy. As a policy implication, democracy once initiated should be accelerated
to edge the appeals of authoritarian regimes and reap the benefits of time and level hypotheses.},
keywords = {Law; Politics; Democracy; Government Policy; Development},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}