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

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 …

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a … access to radio. This effect was reversed during the campaign for the last competitive election as a result of the pro- Nazi … radio broadcast following Hitler's appointment as German chancellor. During the consolidation of dictatorship, radio …