-economic characteristics, this analysis takes individual media consumption into account, as a determinant of opinion about immigration. Our … preferences. Moreover, media exposure appears as a key determinant of beliefs: individuals who spend more time to get informed on …

How far can the media protect or undermine democratic institutions in unconsolidated democracies, and how persuasive …

understudied is the effect of mass media, as the main source of political information, on voter turnout in new democracies. This … theoretical framework suggests that media access and freedom affect turnout. We test our predictions in a sample of 60 developing … countries over the period 1980-2005. We find that media penetration, as measured by radio ownership, fosters turnout, whereas …

This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We … of democracy in his country during his tenure. This e ffect is shown to be independent from the leader's education level …, as well as from his profession. Moreover, it is mainly driven by countries with a poor initial level of democracy. These …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …

66 developing countries over the period 1990-2005, this paper provides econometric evidence that democracy matters for … insufficiently welfare minded. We found that high levels of democracy are specifically needed in natural resource rich countries to …

element of human-sized organizations that were the first mutual or cooperative Caisses, is democracy running the risk to … disappearance of democracy inherent to the cooperative project, a more differentiating diagnosis is proposed, followed by an outline … of some working leads for a creative evolution of cooperative democracy. …

quality of democracy, and we investigate whether foreign aid can dampen them. We take advantage of previous empirical findings … flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms of trade instability on democracy. An empirical investigation with data … of trade instability affects democracy through income instability. …

transitions, we find that external debt constraints indebted countries to move up democracy scale but incite governments to …