Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy … 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period of 1982-2012, we find strong evidence that democracy is positively …

instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings …, aggregate aid flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms-of-trade instability on the quality of democracy. An empirical … results. -- democracy ; foreign aid ; terms-of-trade instability …

Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science …

find evidence of a mitigating role for 'constraints on executive power' and 'democracy'. Other covariates found to be …

democratic governance. The analysis distinguishes between developmental aid and democracy aid, and examines democracy aid to …-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties … of Democracy project, employing a combination of a maximum likelihood estimation and structural equation modelling (ML …

development, defined as enhanced well-being and human flourishing, and democracy, defined as accountability to the deliberatively …

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …