This paper investigates the relation between economic growth and democracy for Côte d’Ivoire for the period 1960 to … economic growth and democracy to move together in the long run, they need to be associated with regime durability. The tests … for causality show long run causality running from GDP per capita and regime durability to democracy. In the short run …

democracy. Between 600 and 322 B.C., Athenian society underwent significant institutional change. Rule by a birth aristocracy …

through the extension of franchise. This is because democracy always implements a highly redistributive fiscal policy, which … makes fighting hard incentive-compatible for the citizens-soldiers. We show that a transition to democracy is more likely to …

We study the incentives to expropriate foreign capital under democracy and obligarchy. We model a two-sector small open …

-effect relationship between capitalist development and liberal democracy. It is divided into two sections. In the first part, we break … away from the idea that democracy can rise anywhere. Then, we criticise the proposition that development may offer … favourable, necessary and/or sufficient prerequisites to democracy. Finally, we contest the symmetrical thesis for which …

through the extension of franchise. This is because democracy always implements a highly redistributive fiscal policy, which … makes fighting hard incentive-compatible for the citizens-soldiers. We show that a transition to democracy is more likely to …

first two periods of this they explained how the rise of democracy brought prosperity to Europe  and why the same process … alleviated by safeguarding democracy rather than moving to socialism. In the last period A and R have formalized doubts about the … efficacy of democracy in this role. The implication here is that Marxists should work to find a system of government that is …

literature on its "dark side". We examine the role of social capital in the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We analyze … democracy. We also show that the effects of social capital were more important in the starting phase of the Nazi movement, and …