This paper assesses if voting for democracy affects long-term electoral participation. We study the effects of … participating in Chile's 1988 plebiscite, which determined whether democracy would be reinstated after a 15-year long military ….3) percentage points in the 2017 Presidential election. These effects are robust to different specifications and distinctive to the …

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 …

contemporary political regimes; leadership selection by election in indigenous societies is associated with contemporary … 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 …

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 …

We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development …

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 …

A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences … content of 9,000 primary and general election websites of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, 2002-2016, as well …

two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public … interests of the two land classes, we find, based on 30-year panel data describing the democratization of Indian villages, that … democratization in villages with a larger landless population share shifted resources away from public irrigation, secondary schools …