changes (e.g., changing party composition, growing racial divisions, the emergence of partisan cable news) that are more …

We argue that the Democratic Party's evolution on economic policy helps explain partisan realignment by education. We …-described "New Democrat" party faction who court more educated voters and are explicitly skeptical of predistribution. Consistent … campaigns relative to Republican primaries. In response to these within-party changes in power, less-educated Americans began to …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …

When democracy is new, it is often fragile and not fully consolidated. We investigate how the danger of a collapse of … democracy may affect fiscal policy in new democracies in comparison to countries where democracy is older and often more … established. We argue that the attitude of the citizenry towards democracy is important in preventing democratic collapse, and …

The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history … of democracy (rather than democracy vs. non-democracy) has important consequences for the adoption of structural polices … opposed to majoritarian) and permanent (as opposed to temporary) democracy appear to produce the most growth …