-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it … does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to … terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result …

Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice …, largely as a result of the immense international differences in labor productivity that exist in the world today. As an …

that increases in income are conducive to increases in democracy levels. This doubt stems mainly from the fact that while a … strong positive correlation exists between income and democracy levels, the relationship disappears when one controls for …, such as institutional quality. In this paper, we reexamine the robustness of the income-democracy relationship. We extend …

Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this … democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 … to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with rising levels of democracy. We find that primary schooling, and …

Growth and democracy (subjective indexes of political freedom) are analyzed for a panel of about 100 countries from … democracy enhances growth at low levels of political freedom but depresses growth when a moderate level of freedom has already …, the overall effect of democracy on growth is weakly negative. There is a suggestion of a nonlinear relationship in which …

Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is limited to few reforms, countries, and … periods. This paper studies the effect of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the …-2004. Democracy has a positive and significant impact on the adoption of economic reforms but there is scarce evidence that economic …