BenYishay, Ariel; Betancourt, Roger - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 552-568
Much recent political economy and political science literature views democracy in terms of political rights. This view …, often referred to as electoral democracy, is particularly pronounced in the empirical literature. We reincorporate the role … of civil liberties, which are at the core of modern democracy, in two ways. We identify four fundamental sources of …