This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

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

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 … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development. -- democracy ; historical persistence …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. -- Democracy ; income inequality …

of democracy in his country during his tenure. This effect is shown to be independent from the leader's education level …, as well as from his profession. Moreover, it is mainly driven by countries with a poor initial level of democracy. These …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for. -- migration ; institutions ; democracy …