There is great variation in views on and treatment of minorities such as gay men across the world. We are the first to … legal rights for gay men, GDP per capita, democracy and economic globalization tend to benefit gays, primarily by shaping …

transnational forms of ordering in world society. The widespread attempt to analyse transnational developments on the basis of … to democracy in transnational settings in so far as both can be understood as reflexivity increasing instruments. The …

between other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience …

This paper presents a general equilibrium model of conflict based on a world populated by representative democracies … democratic leaders is strong, a more democratic world may not necessarily be more peaceful. We discuss the role that norms and … institutions can play in facilitating a more peaceful world with democracies - for example, free trade areas and alliance formation. …

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 …

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 …