Die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit verfolgt zwei Ziele: Armutsreduzierung und Demokratisierung. Auf der … weniger Demokratisierung – und umgekehrt. Dieser Trade-Off lässt sich auflösen, wenn es gelingt, bei diktatorischen Regimes … democratization. Using a rational choice approach to non-democratic regimes, this paper argues that there is a trade-off between these …

There are two innovations in the paper as compared to the previous literature on democracy and growth. First, we … consider not only the level of democracy, but also changes in this level in the 1970s-1990s as measured by increments of … Freedom House political rights indices. Second, the distinction is made between democracy and law and order (order based on …

Does higher income cause democracy? Accounting for the dynamic nature and highpersistence of income and democracy, we … find a statistically significant positive relationbetween income and democracy for a postwar period sample of up to 150 …

We consider the empirical relevance of two opposing hypotheses on the causality between income and democracy: The … Democratic Transition claims that rising incomes cause a transition to democracy, whereas the Critical Junctures hypothesis … as instruments for modern income levels, and find a large long-run causal effect of income on the degree of democracy …

We consider the empirical relevance of two opposing hypotheses on the causality between income and democracy: The … Democratic Transition hypothesis claims that rising incomes cause a transition to democracy, whereas the Critical Junctures … as instruments for modern income levels, and find a large long-run causal effect of income on the degree of democracy …

unterschiedlichem Tempo und sequencing den Weg zu Demokratie und einer marktwirtschaftlichen Wirtschaftsordnung. Die polit … die Frage, ob die Einführung von Demokratie angesichts umfassender ökonomischer Reformen nicht besser verzögert werden … sollte. Nach einer theoretischen Betrachtung von Governance, Demokratie und Reformen folgt in diesem Beitrag ein Überblick …

subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competition are substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits … democracy, and rulers are less eager to oppose it, when external competition is high. In a panel of countries, there are fewer … changes towards democracy when states have low GDP relative to their neighbours. …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …

we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for … (consensual crowding out). And finally, the more a government supports democratization, the lower is the individual's engagement …

we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for … (consensual crowding out). And finally, the more a government supports democratization, the lower is the individual's engagement …