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 …

This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and … preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is … reached, and whether, conversely, democratization is likely to be an obstacle to the acceptation of market liberalization. Our …

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …

democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development …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 …

We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general … accelerate technology adoption if coupled with democratization but may lead to a slow down if these regime changes are imbalanced … variation and the heterogenous timing of openness and democratization. The results document the existence of robust positive …

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 …

, demographic, geographic and institutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and … institutions are accounted for …

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 … outcomes under democracy is also investigated using novel data on constitutional principles. The findings support the …

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …