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TL;DR: Sure, here is the TLDR: The article "Democracy, History, and Economic Performance: A Case-Study Approach" explores the relationship between democracy and economic performance, finding a positive association between the length of democratic rule and economic growth.

Abstract: Peter Kingstone has an article accepted to World Development, titled “Democracy, History, and Economic Performance: A Case-Study Approach,” co-authored with John Gerring, Matthew Lange, and Aseema Sinha. The article builds on cross-national quantitative work that establishes a positive relationship between the length of time a country is democratic and economic performance. The article compares Brazil, India, and Mauritius to trace the causal mechanisms underlying the relationship.