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CREATED:20251007T140104
SUMMARY:Fabian Waldinger - University of Munich
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Dictators, Democracies, and Discoveries: Political Institutions and the Cre
 ation of Knowledge\n\n\nAbstract:\nWe investigate the role of political ins
 titutions in shaping global knowledge production. Using a newly assembled g
 lobal dataset covering universities, scientists, publications, Nobel Prize–
 winning discoveries, and technological breakthroughs from 1900 to the prese
 nt, we find that institutional quality is a key determinant of scientific p
 roduction. Countries with high-quality institutions build larger academic s
 ectors and generate substantially more frontier research and Nobel prize-wi
 nning discoveries. Event-study evidence from sharp institutional improvemen
 ts and deteriorations confirms that changes in political institutions lead 
 to sustained shifts in scientific production. The effects operate both thro
 ugh scale and productivity: conditional on the size of the research workfor
 ce, higher-quality institutions produce more scientific output. Institution
 s also shape the breadth of inquiry: autocracies channel research into
  a narrower set of fields, achieving excellence in some areas but lacking t
 he broad exploration of ideas that characterizes democracies. Finally, we s
 how that institutional quality increases not only published research but al
 so path-breaking technological discoveries, including those outside academi
 c journals. Together, the results identify political institutions as a cent
 ral determinant of global knowledge creation.\n
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