Security, government spending, and other public policies. But is there an empirical connection between democracy and Social … Security policy. We find little partial effect of democracy on the size of Social Security budgets, on how those budgets are …

Foreign aid has become closely connected to the development of democracy since the nineties. This paper analyses the … democracy effects of aid accounting for this change in donors’ criteria. This approach contributes to the literature by … data model using data from 52 African countries between 1997 and 2008. I find that aid favours democracy. However when …