that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid, thus weakening democracy promotion. This study aims to deepen our … Survey, we use an instrumental variable approach to test the effect of Chinese aid on attitudes toward democracy in 18 Latin … democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …

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 …

In this paper, the introduction of direct-democratic decision-making in all EU decisions is considered when it is … discussion of the pros and cons of direct democracy, the ability of direct democracy to help creating a European demos is …

It is argued that an independent judiciary is a necessary condition for both individual liberty and economic prosperity …. After having surveyed the literature dealing with how to arrange for an independent judiciary, the authors derive some …

independence of the judiciary and demonstrated its utility in a large cross-section of countries. The indicator has been widely … environment, but not on a country's initial per capita income. …