This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical …

Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited … explain why presidential democracy leads to faster growth than parliamentary democracy. Third, it is important to distinguish … growth effect of democracy. …

in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …

new instrument for democracy and the extension of the franchise, the effect of decolonisation on democracy in the … colonising country’s democratisation to identify the causal effect of democracy on heights. We find robust evidence of a link … between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …

effects of direct democracy. Town meetings (popular assemblies) replace local councils in small German municipalities below a … specific population threshold. Difference-in-differences, RD and event study estimates consistently show that direct democracy …% under direct democracy. We do not find that business tax rates change. Direct democracy allows citizens to design tax …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update … improvements are particularly notable: First, we produce a continuous and a dichotomous version of the Machine Learning democracy … conceptualization of the Machine Learning Index. Finally, we largely expand the data coverage by providing democracy indicators for 186 …