Indonesia as a case in point to classify communities strictly adhering to traditional adat laws and Islamic religion as … that, even after controlling for other variables, traditional collectivist communities strongly adhering to adat and Islam …

despite many sources of instability, such as territorial disputes, the influence of fundamentalist Islam, and the potential …

cover four major areas: democracy, markets, public sector management and rule of law, as well as a number of key …

episode (in favor of democracy) of the “pendulum practice”. There were still both populist (Peru, Venezuela, Brazil) and …’s transition to democracy occurred at the end of the decade. In synthesis, during the “pendulum phase”, both populist and … bureaucratic decision making processes were highly illiberal, and below the minimum conditions of democracy. In fact, controls (by …

disenchantment with democracy at the beginning of the XXI Century? This article analysizes these questions and reaches a negative … transformed by marginal, gradual, evolutionary change, supported by strong coalitions of citizens. The future of democracy and …

.e., democracy and autocracy. We develop a theoretical model which predicts that anticipation of financial flows from international …

We revisit Lipset‘s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using … democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …

unrest or revolution, and this may force the elite to democratize. Democracy may not consolidate because it is more … redistributive than a nondemocratic regime, and this gives the elite an incentive to mount a coup. Because inequality makes democracy … more costly for the elite, highly unequal societies are less likely to consolidate democracy and may end up oscillating …

unrest or revolution, and this may force the elite to democratize. Democracy may not consolidate because it is more … redistributive than a nondemocratic regime, and this gives the elite an incentive to mount a coup. Because inequality makes democracy … more costly to the elite, highly unequal cocieties are less likely to consolidate democracy and may end up oscillating …