always been guided by two basic principles: representative democracy, and a proper division of power between national and … drawn to centralized democracy, as national elites may prefer to centralize power around themselves. America's successful …

This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-panel data built from nine Latin American countries' household surveys (1995-2009, biannual). Democracy is measured as a stock …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …

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

Direct democracy is designed to better align public resource allocation decisions with citizen preferences. Using a … results indicate that the use of direct democracy in public resource allocation results in more legitimate outcomes than those …

. The authors find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that …

normative justification for such interventions, for the purpose of promoting democracy and eventually for the promotion of peace … democracy. Thus, forced democratization is unpredictable with regard to achieving long-term democracy and potentially harmful …