of the quality of a democracy. The main novelty of the paper lies in its methodology: it applies to a single country … main finding is that a higher level of income inequality impacts negatively on citizens' satisfaction with democracy and …

One cannot doubt the ubiquitous lack of hope and confidence in the so-called democratic institutions by the large … majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … Europe, of the pre-revolution era2. What is at stake is to understand the paramount failure of political institutions to meet …

freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies rule, suggest that electoral democracy may not be the … provide a firmer foundation. We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal …

information from five Varieties of Democracy indices. K-means country clusters are similar but not entirely identical to both k …-medians clusters and arbitrary groups formed using only one measure, namely the liberal democracy index. Simple correlations with … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …

find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world’s income distribution, but that correcting …