A growing body of research suggests that democracy promotes trade liberalization in developing countries. We argue that … democracy in developing countries generates a "skill bias" in trade policy where democratic incumbents have incentives to …

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …

This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two …

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 …

Liberal democracy is under challenge on a global scale. The global financial crisis has accelerated and aggravated the … crisis of liberal democracy in the global North. The paper examines the prospects for liberal democracy in the global South … capitalism and democracy in the global South and evaluates the credentials of democratic BRICS and near-BRICS as serious pro-democracy …

: Democratization in the late twentieth century, 1991) and the methodology of Acemoglu et al. (Democracy does cause growth, 2014) about … 1993 to 2012. His explanatory variable is a dichotomous democracy measure, but he alters his analysis from previous … research by assuming that democracy is not an exogenous variable. Instead, he uses the theory of Huntington (The third wave …