-shaped relationship between political liberalization and growth is found, such that a rise in democracy levels promotes growth only under … surprisingly small coefficients. -- Transition Economics ; Public Choice ; Democracy ; Growth …This paper revisits the relation between democracy, liberalization, and prosperity in transition countries, using a …

Assumptions about the democracy promoting qualities of transitional justice measures abound. However the relatively few … policies have affected democratization. First, this paper demonstrates a robust democracy boost from lustration policies. In …; extensive lustration provides a democracy boost of approximately 30%, even controlling for macroeconomic and political factors …

divergence in democracy and political rights is 4 to 5 times larger than the divergence in the path toward economic freedom and … ease of doing business. Democracy is not harder to predict than economic freedom — history and ethnicity predict it well …