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 …

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 … Plebiscite eligibility (participation) significantly increased electoral turnout three decades later, reaching 1.8 (3 …

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

We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although … empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we provide evidence that … democracy influences productivity growth in different sectors differently and that this differential effect may be one of the …

civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide …Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal … base. As education raises the benefits of civic participation, it raises the support for more democratic regimes relative …

Estimates of democracy's effect on the public sector are obtained from comparisons of 142 countries over the years 1960 … distributed in democracies, and the form of voting processes is important -- we expect democracy to affect policies that … democracies are less likely to use policies that limit competition for public office. Alternative modeling approaches emphasize …

that increases in income are conducive to increases in democracy levels. This doubt stems mainly from the fact that while a … strong positive correlation exists between income and democracy levels, the relationship disappears when one controls for …, such as institutional quality. In this paper, we reexamine the robustness of the income-democracy relationship. We extend …