policies have affected democratization. First, this paper demonstrates a robust democracy boost from lustration policies. In … democratization than programs relying on symbolic, moral cleansing changes alone. Second, the magnitude of the effect is substantial … enhances overall levels of democratization …

legal rules); the latter is measured by the rule of law, investors' risk and corruption indices. We discuss two … interconnected threshold hypotheses: (1) in countries where law and order is strong enough, democratization stimulates economic … growth, whereas in countries with poor law and order democratization undermines growth; (2) if democratization occurs under …

The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) is the most famous corruption evaluation since its first publication by … Transparency International (TI), in 1995. This index is also considered the most robust measure of corruption perceptions. However … article we isolated the role played by the media in corruption perceptions. We previously suggested that young democracies …