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 …

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 …

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 …

evolution of the democracy level of countries affected by giant oil discoveries with the weighted democracy level of countries … democracy in the pre-event period are not affected by the peak of oil discoveries. These results support heterogeneity and non …

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

information from five Varieties of Democracy indices. K-means country clusters are similar but not entirely identical to both k …-medians clusters and arbitrary groups formed using only one measure, namely the liberal democracy index. Simple correlations with … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …