divergence in democracy and political rights is 4 to 5 times larger than the divergence in the path toward economic freedom and … ease of doing business. Democracy is not harder to predict than economic freedom — history and ethnicity predict it well …

religious and imperial history on economic evolution. As a result, the divergence in democracy and political rights is 4 to 5 … times larger than the divergence in the path towards economic freedom and ease of doing business. Democracy is not harder to …

Assumptions about the democracy promoting qualities of transitional justice measures abound. However the relatively few … policies have affected democratization. First, this paper demonstrates a robust democracy boost from lustration policies. In …; extensive lustration provides a democracy boost of approximately 30%, even controlling for macroeconomic and political factors …

This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and … preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is … strategy consists in relying on the specific situation of frontier-zones. We find that democracy enhances the support for …

1992) are added to compare attitudes towards democracy. Two comparisons are made: between countries, and through time, to …