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

"incomplete vote" which simply allocated 2/3 of the legislative seats to the winning party and 1/3 to the loser. This formula …

We revisit one of the central empirical findings of the political economy literature that higher income per capita … causes democracy. Existing studies establish a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, but do not … country fixed effects removes the statistical association between income per capita and various measures of democracy. We also …

We provide evidence that democracy has a significant and robust positive effect on GDP. Our empirical strategy relies … on a dichotomous measure of democracy coded from several sources to reduce measurement error and controls for country … fixed effects and the rich dynamics of GDP, which otherwise confound the effect of democracy on economic growth. Our …

In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail … to be realized when democracy is captured by the richer segments of the population; when it caters to the preferences of …

research on long-run comparative development should investigate the implications of political inequality as well as those of …

The conventional wisdom in political science is that for a democracy to be consolidated, all groups must have a chance … to attain power. If they do not then they will subvert democracy and choose to fight for power. In this paper we show … natural model, we show that democracy may never be consolidated in such a situation. Rather, democracy may only be stable when …

The conventional wisdom views high levels of education as a prerequisite for democracy. This paper shows that existing …

the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various …, guilds, and urban oligarchies and established the principle of equality before the law. The evidence suggests that areas that …