constitution is a contract joining the citizens of a state and requires as such the explicit agreement of (a majority of) citizens … discussion of the pros and cons of direct democracy, the ability of direct democracy to help creating a European demos is …

have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct … democracy, representative democracy, where politicians are accountable and independent agencies, where they are not. Low … uncertainty about the state of the world and the future electorate s preferences and high expected polarization make direct …

dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on …

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …

This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our … 175 countries from 1996 to 2010. The results show that democratic elections only work in controlling corruption, if there …

I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired … orientation. In order to provide better and faster public services in Germany, the Online Access Act was introduced in 2017, which … stipulates that the federal, state and local governments must provide 575 services electronically via administrative portals by …

well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and …