role of political culture and of its interaction with political institutions. Political culture reflects the extent of … individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … variable of the model along with formal political institutions. We focus on two agencies of political socialization: the family …

institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an instrumental-variables strategy exploiting regional democratization waves … and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic … and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are …

Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis …

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 … institutional development. -- EU ; NATO ; transition economies ; institutional change ; governance …

necessary. Inequality in endowments and incomes prolongs the absence of good institutions and delays democratization. Conversely …We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process … of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law …

explanations highlight, mainly, the roles of trade openness, political institutions, financial integration, financial development …

inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with …Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and … institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower. …

democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development. -- democracy ; historical persistence …We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases …, provided that they trust political institutions. Our findings suggest that one solution to the recent electoral backlash of … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. -- Democracy ; income inequality …

theoretical predictions. -- democratization ; oligarchy ; conflict ; consensual democracy ; inequality ; commitment …We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where … the conditions under which democratization initially takes place. The political regime and the extent of redistribution …