Conditionality and Domestic Political Economy -- Chapter 9: The Crisis, its Management and Impact on Equity and Democracy in Portugal … in Crisis - Governance, Equity and Democracy -- Part IV: Impact of the Crisis in Europe and Latin America: Regional Level … focus on equity and democracy. Based on a three-year research project by the Jean Monnet Network, this volume takes an …

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 enhances entry rates for small sized firms but reduces them for medium or large ones …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

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 …

partial or captured democracy. We provide as well econometric support showing that even when de facto is modelled as a …

trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not … more than a decade of democracy, have the same levels of social distrust as shortly after the collapse of communism. In …