power and economic interests after a transition to democracy. We claim that legislative malapportionment enhances the pre … America to document empirically that malapportionment increases the probability of transitioning to a democracy. Moreover, our … data show that overrepresented electoral districts are more likely to vote for parties close to pre-democracy ruling groups …

tries to identify the effect of democracy on economic prosperity, little work has been done to understand the determinants … of economic growth under democracy. This paper examines whether the determinants of economic growth in Latin America are …

This paper advances that the share of European descendants in the population is a major determinant of democracy in … in measures of democracy between the least and the most democratic countries in our sample. We control for other … potential determinants of democracy and test for endogeneity bias using instrumental variables. …

This article examines the relationship between colonialism and technology transfer via the study of nineteenth century …

and democracy in an eminently Marxian fashion. These analyses bear on a number of papers published mainly in S …