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 …

What determines citizens satisfaction with the constitution in operation ? We make two contributions towards an answer … satisfaction, but affects different types of citizens differently. Second, we focus on informal institutions and rules of the game … in European societies. Corporatism and group membership as a measure of social capital are good for satisfaction, and …

A cross-regional econometric analysis suggests that institutional factors in the form of direct democracy (via …

Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we …

-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders notably increased satisfaction with democracy and shifted political support towards … centrist parties. Stay-at-home orders increased satisfaction with democracy most among individuals who had been exposed to the … restrictive state interventions. Moreover, we find suggestive evidence that satisfaction with democracy increases more among …

,776 respondents from nine members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Quasi-experimental evidence …