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 …

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

-30 percent were Mexico to attain a level of democracy comparable to that prevailing in the U.S …

than is that of other country pairs only after World War II. Before 1914 and between the World Wars, there is no difference …

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

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 …