Social democracy, it is often said, is nice but pricey. Whatever its merits in the rich countries of Western Europe …, social democracy is frequently dismissed as an infeasible model for developing countries. Based on generosity towards the … poor and protection against market competition, the argument goes, social democracy is only possible in consensual …

German Social Democracy is faced with tremendous challenges of societal and economic changes: party dealignment, a … bourgeoisifying of society, the rise of media democracy and economic and cultural globalisation. The party's reaction - a third order …

world relevance to development policy because donor agencies regularly measure and assess the quality of governance … and refocus attention and analysis on its various disaggregated components, as defined here (e.g., democracy, the rule of …

empirically the complex relationship between democracy and FDI in a systematic way, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis …

women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … with a higher degree of democracy. These findings are robust to the choice of control variables and the method of …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …