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

probability of a transition from autocracy to democracy and reduces the probability of democratic survival. …

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

fixed ex post, but this is what the Icelandic Parliament is at present trying to do, flirting with a farewell to democracy. …

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

liberalizations correspond to the event of becoming a democracy. Using a difference-indifference estimation, we ask what are the …