-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it … does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to … terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result …

most effective ones for processing and aggregating local knowledge. Democracy is a meta-institution for building good …

and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic … and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are …

democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 … integrated with democracies are, at the time of the survey, more supportive of democracy. In line with the change in citizens …' preferences, economic integration with democratic partners has a large, positive effect on a country's democracy score. Instead …

Beyond its immediate impact on public health and the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has put democracy under stress …, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government performance may cause deeper dissatisfaction with democracy even …,500 respondents to examine the impact of the pandemic on public attitudes about incumbent governments, the functioning of democracy …

World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and … government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …

individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … personal joblessness experience translates into negative opinions about the effectiveness of democracy and it increases the … that democracies are ineffective, regardless of joblessness. People's beliefs about the effectiveness of democracy as …

's global share of GDP means that liberal Asian nations will be poised to take up the role of promoting liberal democracy …

We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although … empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we provide evidence that … democracy influences productivity growth in different sectors differently and that this differential effect may be one of the …