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 …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling …

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 …

darin ist sein spezifischer Liberalismus, der durch einen negativen Begriff von Freiheit bestimmt ist. Damit verbunden ist …Friedrich August von Hayek left a broad theoretical oeuvre to posterity. His specific liberalism, which is determined …

. 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 …