This paper investigates the relation between economic growth and democracy for Côte d’Ivoire for the period 1960 to … economic growth and democracy to move together in the long run, they need to be associated with regime durability. The tests … for causality show long run causality running from GDP per capita and regime durability to democracy. In the short run …

democracy. Between 600 and 322 B.C., Athenian society underwent significant institutional change. Rule by a birth aristocracy …

We study the incentives to expropriate foreign capital under democracy and obligarchy. We model a two-sector small open …

Regimes controlled by a rich elite often collapse and make way for democracy amidst widespread social unrest. Such … therefore be forced to choose between repression and the most generous concession, a transition to full democracy. …

This paper studies the effect of strengthening democracy, as captured by an increase in voting rights, on the incidence … of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and … conflict is challenging, not only because of conceptual problems in defining and measuring democracy, but also because …

-effect relationship between capitalist development and liberal democracy. It is divided into two sections. In the first part, we break … away from the idea that democracy can rise anywhere. Then, we criticise the proposition that development may offer … favourable, necessary and/or sufficient prerequisites to democracy. Finally, we contest the symmetrical thesis for which …

literature on its "dark side". We examine the role of social capital in the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We analyze … democracy. We also show that the effects of social capital were more important in the starting phase of the Nazi movement, and …