individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …

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

provide a historical overview that designates the Jewish kibbutz as the collective of democracy and the Russian …-Orthodox monastery as the collective of dictatorship. Assuming a collectivist economy, I solve the radical government and modernization …

protecting democracy from creeping oligarchy served up one campaign contribution at a time. As evidenced by Town of Greece v …. Galloway, the Supreme Court is not protecting democracy from creeping theocracy served up one public prayer at a time. In both …

regional politics, respectively, adopt a subnational approach to democratization, measuring democracy in a standard fashion … across 57 regions of Russia. They rate levels of democracy in Russia's oblasts, krays, and federal cities based on the … regions, evaluates the survey as a means of measuring provincial democracy, and examines five possible explanations for …

and their constituent indicators from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project. It analyzes the historical development … of the five Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) principles of democracy – electoral, liberal, egalitarian, deliberative and … democracy in the country. Two periods of relatively high achievement on democratic indices (during the first Czechoslovak …

This paper questions the effect of democracy on regulatory reforms by mainly checking whether the observed differences … democracy. Our results, based primarily on the Oaxaca - Blinder decomposition approach, suggest that democracy is not the basis … of these observed differences. This calls into question the importance of democracy when it comes to unleashing the …