a separate line of research on the association between democracy and economic growth argues that democracies and autocracies achieve on average, equal economic growth, though democracies are less volatile (). Given the inconclusive literature on the relationship between democracy and economic growth, one of the objective of this paper is to re-exmine
the empirical relationship between these two variables using data from ASEAN countries. It intends to empirically test whether there is a significant long-run relationship between these two variables