We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect …

Recent empirical work has established that 'democracy causes growth'. In this paper, we determine the underlying … institutions which drive this relationship using data from the Varieties of Democracy project. We sketch how incentives and … institutions, as witnessed recently in many countries, may jeopardise the perpetual growth effect of becoming a liberal democracy …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update … improvements are particularly notable: First, we produce a continuous and a dichotomous version of the Machine Learning democracy … conceptualization of the Machine Learning Index. Finally, we largely expand the data coverage by providing democracy indicators for 186 …

democracy and the Russian-Orthodox monastery as the collective of dictatorship. Assuming a collectivist economy, I solve the …

experience reduces it. Both reactions clearly reveal that individuals assign a positive value to formal democratic participation …

drastically escalate attacks. Our results speak to the charged debates about democracy, by identifying conditions under which … heightened interest in political decision-making can pose a threat to democracy in and of itself. …