This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of the conditions of self-enforcing democracy by analyzing … contrast, low degrees of corruption and strongly separated powers can be viewed as prerequisites to self-enforcing democracy. …

The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …

partly affects cooperation. While there is no positive democracy effect when the institution is implemented, the vote …

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 …. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy …

As a result of the prevailing governance structure, economic policy in democracies usually suffers from specific … the governance structure of economic policy. It is suggested that a dual democratic legitimacyʺ should be introduced. A … second chamber in bicameralistic legislation, closely cooperating with consultative expert institutions. Secondly, the senate …