income share. We revisit and extend previous empirical research on democratic political institutions and the labor share … using a dataset of 112 countries over the period 1970-2015. Our empirical analysis shows that democracy allows workers to … appropriate a higher share of national income. The evidence is robust to different indices of democracy and different periods of …

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 …

satisfaction, but affects different types of citizens differently. Second, we focus on informal institutions and rules of the game …

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 …

, measures of democracy, human development, corruption perception index and per capita income, which in turn jointly influence … 2-SLS. Empirically, it has been established that globalization, democracy, human development and low level of corruption …

this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying the association with five different democracy measures, this study …

Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy … 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period of 1982-2012, we find strong evidence that democracy is positively …

We examine the role of democracy shocks in the cross-country economic growth processes over a period of five decades … investigation. We study if (i) a shock to democracy in one country triggers institutional reforms and growth upsurge in the … neighbouring countries, and (ii) the magnitude and direction of response to democracy shocks are contingent upon income pathways of …

effective civil society participation and the improvement of the quality of democracy. …