At a time when the fate of national representative government in Senegal, still hangs in the balance, a variety of … grassroots organizations is seemingly, and unexpectedly laying some of the groundwork for future change. Notions of "democracy … surprising results were conducive to surface the term "democracy", laying the foundation for a training sequence where democracy …

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

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 …