We test if the political regime of a country associates with the patience of the citizens. Recent findings indicate … development, suggesting a potential link between the political regime and patience. We document a positive association between the … level of democracy and patience for most of the political regime indices that we use, even after controlling for region …

Since trust correlates with economic development and in turn economic development associates with political regime, we … conjecture that there may be a relationship between trust and political regime. We investigate if trust aggregated on the country … level correlates with the political regime. We do not find any significant association, with or without taking into account …