A democratic regime is assumed to implement freedom and equality as the two critical and most important values. The … question we intend to address here is: how and why has the actual implementation of freedom and equality been changing in the … show how there are three different paths in the future of democracy: balanced democracy, protest democracy, and …

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …

development in its different stages. Firstly, we identify the three development stages that prevailed in the world between 1996 … and 2011 according to the income classification of the World Bank corroborated with data from the UNDP Human Development … the success cases. The results identified economic freedom as the most important institution in all development stages …

There is a growing literature studying the effects of economic freedom and democracy on income inequality; nevertheless … democracy is estimated. The findings demonstrate that economic freedom has positive effect on income inequality. The estimated …-economic freedom nexus and uncovers the role of political regime in explaining the relationship. Using the latest inequality data from …