This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … political instability, while other potential mechanisms, such as education, investment and inequality, lack comparable empirical … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects attitudes toward democracy and policy preferences. The … from 90 countries. The results show that the support for democracy increases with age and, at the same time, depends on … cohort-specific factors that are related to past experiences with democracy and socioeconomic status. The findings shed new …

political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The results reveal that support for democracy increases with age and is … heterogeneity in experiences with democracy, and that socioeconomic factors impact democratic attitudes. …

broader relationship between democracy and violence. The chapter studies some of the most important democratization reforms …

political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The results reveal that support for democracy increases with age and is … heterogeneity in experiences with democracy, and that socioeconomic factors impact democratic attitudes. …

intermediate democracy level. For more evolved democracies, further democratization may impact growth negatively, negligibly or …, implying that the indirect impacts of democracy on growth, as a whole, might be negative. For most estimations, a (minimum …) level of democracy that maximizes growth is found, which I call the “democracy maximum”. My results suggest this occurs for …

In this paper we examine the interrelatedness between regime types of democracy and non-democracy and poverty reduction …, GDP and inequality we find no significant impact of democratization on poverty rates. In more flexible and causal …

democratization that only occur when institutions are still relatively weak, rather than due to growth or inequality changes. When the … are more important for poverty reduction than institutions that capture formal aspects of democracy. …

We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect … of democracy on institutional quality is increasing in people's human capital. Using a new panel data set, covering 140 …

We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect …