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 …

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

latent-growth-curve modeling based on household panels show that participatory inequality by parental income is already large …

We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for …

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 …

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … growth. Credit guarantee is one of the most significant positive links between economic growth and democracy. The marginal …