Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy … 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period of 1982-2012, we find strong evidence that democracy is positively …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

Africa has seen a steady rise in democracy since the end of the Cold War. This paper investigates two possible … estimated using a new instrument: the spatial lag of democracy. This instrument varies over time, allowing for consideration of …

Do democracy and economic growth exerts similar patterns in the long-run? This paper systematically examines the … defining democracy according to arbitrary thresholds in quantitative indices: the focus is in fact on the process of political … development (along an ideal continuum from autocracy to democracy) rather than on its final output. Finally, the paper offers a …

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 …

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 …