This paper investigates infrastructure investment in markets where regulation is subject to varying degrees of … manipulation by elected politicians. Based on a model of price regulation in a market with increasing demand and long-term returns … made independent of future political manipulation. Independency of regulation thus decreases efficiency and consumer …

the reforms. Democracy facilitates the actions of interest groups …

, labor organization, and state efforts to protect workers and consumers through economic regulation. The results indicate …

examining the transformation of electoral regulation from authoritarianism to democracy in South Korea, a country widely … the premise that political struggles over electoral regulation in a new democracy depend on the ways regulatory …. Electoral regulation, though, can be profoundly political. Writing on democratization has given scant attention to the tension …

reforms and even be less satisfied with democracy as such. We test this hypothesis empirically, using panel data from 30 … European countries in the period 1993–2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform … measures are constructed as distinct changes in four policy areas: government size, the rule of law, openness and regulation …

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …