greater political participation and interest in politics, stronger sense of satisfaction with and support for democracy, and … higher levels of confidence/trust with democracy. Yet, to date no systematic comparative analysis was conducted to test the … hypothesized effects of democratizing selection procedures on citizens' views on democracy. In this paper we use a cross …

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized … process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly forgotten procedure to overcome this deficit: Aleatoric Democracy based on … considered. Persons and ideas, being so far disregarded, are taken into account. Democracy becomes vivid and creative, and does …

majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … the essential of democracy. It could be a road to genuine reforms3 preventing a disaster caused by the sheer rejection of …

with different intensities of democracy. Specifically, we consider the implications of political (dis)parity between the … unified framework to study the direct and indirect effects of democracy by combining state capacity investment and …

In "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy", Robert D. Woodberry (2012) claims that the emergence of stable … alternative democracy measures and extend the time period over which the democracy measures are averaged. These two simple … development of democracy, which raises concerns about the robustness and broader applicability of Woodberry's findings. We discuss …