Economic development and democracy: a preview

Hi all,

I've written a post looking at the relationship between political regimes and economic growth using different indexes that you might wish to look at in order to form some reasonable expectations about what we might or might not find when using the class-generated data:

http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/very-short-quantitative-history-of.html

Take a look, and let me know if you have any questions.