national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …

discussion of the pros and cons of direct democracy, the ability of direct democracy to help creating a European demos is …

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 …

(over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious …

legitimacy of organizational structure. To this end, we design a laboratory experiment in which we exogenously manipulate the … organizational structure in a way that leaves the incentives of all individuals unaffected, but changes the perceived legitimacy of … incentive effects and that the observed changes are significantly associated with changes in perceived legitimacy. …

thus supports the notion that there is a positive relationship between democracy and economic growth. …