up to the present: building new democracy in a new state) the study shows transformations of the city and urban life. The … demonstrates that diversity can grow and flourish only in democracy, which allows differences and pluralism leading to richer and …

This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … these more exogenous democratizations strongly indicates that democracy does not cause growth. Consequently, the common … positive association between democracy and economic growth is driven by endogenous democratization episodes (i.e., due to …

environmental quality. The results indicate that, all else equal, output growth would have increased industrial CO2 emissions in the …

economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period … 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass privatisation has significant positive effect on growth across a wide … development of the capital market, which is significantly correlated with economic growth. …

-votes do not seem to depend on whether a proposal involves a tax or not. -- direct democracy ; environmental policy ; public …