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CREATED:20251007T140104
SUMMARY:Fabian Waldinger - University of Munich
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Dictators, Democracies, and Discove
 ries: Political Institutions and the Creation of Knowledge</strong></p><p>A
 bstract:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We investigate the role of poli
 tical institutions in shaping global knowledge production. Using a newly as
 sembled global dataset covering universities, scientists, publications, Nob
 el Prize–winning discoveries, and technological breakthroughs from 1900 to 
 the present, we find that institutional quality is a key determinant of sci
 entific production. Countries with high-quality institutions build larger a
 cademic sectors and generate substantially more frontier research and Nobel
  prize-winning discoveries. Event-study evidence from sharp institutional i
 mprovements and deteriorations confirms that changes in political instituti
 ons lead to sustained shifts in scientific production. The effects operate 
 both through scale and productivity: conditional on the size of the researc
 h workforce, higher-quality institutions produce more scientific output. In
 stitutions also shape the breadth of inquiry: autocracies&nbsp;channel rese
 arch into a narrower set of fields, achieving excellence in some areas but 
 lacking the broad exploration of ideas that characterizes democracies. Fina
 lly, we show that institutional quality increases not only published resear
 ch but also path-breaking technological discoveries, including those outsid
 e academic journals. Together, the results identify political institutions 
 as a central determinant of global knowledge creation.</p>
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