Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized … process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly forgotten procedure to overcome this deficit: Aleatoric Democracy based on … considered. Persons and ideas, being so far disregarded, are taken into account. Democracy becomes vivid and creative, and does …

terror per capita. Democracy, previously associated with more casualties, emerges as a marginally negative predictor of …

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa’s interior …

We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices … produces upward-biased OLS and 2SLS estimates. The results of an analysis of the effect of democracy on economic growth show …

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 …

: extended institutional and governance quality, democracy, voice and accountability, a well functioning system of law and order …

statistical framework, in a panel of 160 countries, we focus on 14 episodes of transition from democracy to autocracy. We find …