freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies rule, suggest that electoral democracy may not be the … provide a firmer foundation. We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal …

freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies rule, suggest that electoral democracy may not be the … provide a firmer foundation. We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal …

We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal freedom. While judicial … independence is positively and robustly related to personal freedom in all its forms, electoral democracy displays a robust …

freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies rule, suggest that electoral democracy may not be the … provide a firmer foundation. We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal …

curve in many Western economies during this period, with the fall in inequality following redistribution due to …

deliberative democracy in an non-laboratory setting, using a unique dataset collected from transcripts of deliberation that … credible: its preferences approach the pivotal agent in a pure representative democracy, the median household. These effects …

to the latter, it raises a conundrum: if populist policies are detrimental to economic growth, as most economists agree …

the need to establish economic democracy as basis for introducing political democracy. Economic democracy also increases … currently deny economic democracy because they allow concentrated control of money, realty, pension funds and share ownership …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … political instability, while other potential mechanisms, such as education, investment and inequality, lack comparable empirical … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

: the incumbent leader selects the future leader as opposed to citizens at large selecting the future leader under democracy …