-driven) income shocks on democracy. Our results indicate that countries with greater net oil exports over GDP see improvements in … capita GDP growth due to a positive oil price shock increases the Polity democracy score by around 0.2 percentage points on …

democracy in interwar Germany by analyzing Nazi party entry rates in a cross-section of towns and cities. Before the Nazi Party … in Weimar Germany aided the rise of the Nazi movement that ultimately destroyed Germany’s first democracy. …

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

of national income per capita and democracy may not be positively correlated. The model is also useful for understanding …

1960 to 2010 and dynamic panel data analysis, we find a significant and negative relationship between income and democracy … exogenous and endogenous democracy. The former explains whether external factors, such as the end of the Cold War, as well as … Cold War has a significant influence on the democratisation process probably because of the pro-democracy policies …

democracy in interwar Germany by analyzing Nazi party entry rates in a cross-section of towns and cities. Before the Nazi Party … in Weimar Germany aided the rise of the Nazi movement that ultimately destroyed Germany's first democracy. …

to the event of becoming a democracy.  We find that democratization leads to a more market-based financial system … change on financial structure we estimate a separate model and find that democracy matters.  We also find that countries with … estimation, alternative measures of democracy and financial structure, and across different samples. …