East Asian experience as the principal benchmark for comparison, this paper examines whether Turkey is on its way to …

level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …

while for five countries no causal relationships were found. On the other hand, Turkey differs from other countries in that …

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 …

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 …

non-hostile country. The result is a non-monotonic relationship between democracy and peace. Using the Polity IV dataset …