representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of …

Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and … countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset … 150 countries over the period 1960-2004. Democracy has a positive and significant impact on the adoption of economic …

satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality … problems ; environmental economics and policy ; satisfaction with democracy …

We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected … in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from … federal direct democracy. In the medium to longer term, more federal propositions on the ballot rather relate to higher …

benchmark, mutatis mutandis. In the end, full convergence is established, from a pure democracy ruled through the de jure power …