This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth …. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the "Third Wave", we find evidence that the … effect of democratization is weaker than reported previously once one accounts for the incidence of conflict, while the …

rest of the Arab World. We find that high and upper-middle income countries are immune to democracy shocks in Egypt …We examine the role of democracy shocks in the cross-country economic growth processes over a period of five decades … since 1960. The recent uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world form the main context of our …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

democracy. With respect to risky choice behavior, a multitude of empirical evidence shows the disconformity of human behavior …, the political economy literature considers economic development itself as an important determinant of democracy. The fifth … study of the dissertation investigates the effect of income on democracy, based on the premise that the theory of critical …

the specific field of human rights and democracy promotion in the current changing global order. It examines recent … rights and democracy in the current multi-polar order …