rents extracted in any given high-income democracy context. Specifically, the paper formally models how: (1) variation in …

power and economic interests after a transition to democracy. We claim that legislative malapportionment enhances the pre … America to document empirically that malapportionment increases the probability of transitioning to a democracy. Moreover, our … data show that overrepresented electoral districts are more likely to vote for parties close to pre-democracy ruling groups …