Canada's federation. …

We present results for two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Hamilton, Canada and the US to elicit WTP for …

Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited … explain why presidential democracy leads to faster growth than parliamentary democracy. Third, it is important to distinguish … growth effect of democracy. …

We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub … of direct democracy. This allows us to take into account vertical differences between institutions, i.e. we can … distinguish the effect of state direct democracy on local expenditures for municipalities with and without own direct democratic …

performance across regions. -- accountability ; federalism ; decentralization ; retrospective voting ; Condorcet Jury Theorem …

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 …