An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when … force making democracy less stable in societies with high social mobility: when the median voter expects to move up …

wealth tends to undermine democracy. Given high oil prices, some observers see the country as virtually condemned to …

. However, the introduction of elections and other early trappings of democracy often has the perverse effect of exacerbating … democracy and capitalism--is to move to a governance structure based on impersonal rules that apply in the same way to everyone …

which democracy and media freedom have been eroded in Türkiye and their usefulness in dealing with natural disasters and … democracy and media freedom have significant effects on beliefs and increase the likelihood of voting for the opposition by … misperceived beliefs about democracy and media freedom in Türkiye. The evidence suggests that at least part of the support for …