This paper examines the impact of procedural justice and sanctions on police legitimacy in a middle-income context … concludes that, while sanctions deter repeated infractions, they can erode legitimacy if not applied respectfully, highlighting …

two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …

social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour …

This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a worldwide survey of 165 country-specific democracy experts conducted for … these more exogenous democratizations strongly indicates that democracy does not cause growth. Consequently, the common …