of democracy (rather than democracy vs. non-democracy) has important consequences for the adoption of structural polices … opposed to majoritarian) and permanent (as opposed to temporary) democracy appear to produce the most growth …

When democracy is new, it is often fragile and not fully consolidated. We investigate how the danger of a collapse of … democracy may affect fiscal policy in new democracies in comparison to countries where democracy is older and often more … established. We argue that the attitude of the citizenry towards democracy is important in preventing democratic collapse, and …

's global share of GDP means that liberal Asian nations will be poised to take up the role of promoting liberal democracy …

We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although … empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we provide evidence that … democracy influences productivity growth in different sectors differently and that this differential effect may be one of the …

The connections between globalization and democracy are a classic question in international political economy and a … positive relationships running both ways between globalization and democracy, though exceptions obtain at particular times …

representative democracy. The basic association, however, is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous groups within a … Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped …