This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter … results hold across countries with different levels of democracy, thus rejecting the hypothesis that indoctrination through …

individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … personal joblessness experience translates into negative opinions about the effectiveness of democracy, and it increases the … year is the main source of the impact. Joblessness-related negative attitude towards the effectiveness of democracy is not …

(consensual crowding out). And finally, the more a government supports democratization, the lower is the individual's engagement …

simple model of transition and democratization is presented wherein we show that the effectiveness of repression by the … country to start a transition process towards democratization is not necessarily the one nearest to the free world. …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

Democracy is defined by two core tenets: voice and pluralism. Within these constraints, a wide variety of regime types … can be designed. We show that the only new, untested form of democracy is when every citizen is governed by the political … one sovereign only over the people who chose to vote for it - hence the name: Choice Democracy. Choice Democracy can be …

non-hostile country. The result is a non-monotonic relationship between democracy and peace. Using the Polity IV dataset … regime types). Thus, while full democratization might advance the cause of peace, limited democratization might advance the …

Is there any relation between education and democracy? Once we correct for weak instruments and identify education as … `weakly exogenous` we find new evidence that education systematically predicts democracy. Our results are robust across model …

institution, formal village elections. While recent work suggests democratization increases cooperation, the differentially timed …