-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 …

pandemic, one of the largest crises in recent history. We find four main results. First, many around the world reveal a clear …. Fourth, we document a gradual decline and then plateau in citizens' overall willingness to sacrifice rights and freedom as …

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 …

most effective ones for processing and aggregating local knowledge. Democracy is a meta-institution for building good …

and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic … and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are …

democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 … integrated with democracies are, at the time of the survey, more supportive of democracy. In line with the change in citizens …' preferences, economic integration with democratic partners has a large, positive effect on a country's democracy score. Instead …

Beyond its immediate impact on public health and the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has put democracy under stress …, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government performance may cause deeper dissatisfaction with democracy even …,500 respondents to examine the impact of the pandemic on public attitudes about incumbent governments, the functioning of democracy …

World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and … government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …