Paper - Role of Democracy in Economic Development

This assignment is interested in having students access states from across the globe, not just the usual  suspects of the developed countries and few of our neighbors to the South. Hobbes identified 8 regions which you can access in the textbook. Taking each region in turn, identify two states from each region and detail its form of government and identify whether a democracy or not. Also assess its economic performance in terms of its total GNP compared to other states and then its per capita GNP. Then you need to identify if there is a relationship between economic performance and whether a democracy or not.
You can access information for this assignment by going to UN statistics, the U.S. State Department Country Studies http://www.state.gov/misc/list/index.htm, and the CIA World Fact Book https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html. You must construct a form similar to this to consolidate your data before you do your analysis of how the states are doing comparatively speaking.

Region/Country

Government form

Democracy Y or N Economic rank total GNP

Per capita GNP

You are to complete the assignment in MS Word, 1200 word minimum-2,000 word maximum, minimum of 5 references (not including the textbook or modules) for where you retrieved the information used. Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference nor are dictionary entries.