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 …

, depending on whether it appears in the form of rises in income or in education: A higher income level reduces democracy, whereas … more education leads to both more democracy and more repression. These theoretical findings are corroborated by panel data …

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 …

whether oil affects democratic institutions. We further the debate through the use of additional measures of democracy and …

literature on democratic breakdown: the rise and fall of Argentine democracy between 1916 and 1930. First, we demonstrate that … the allocation of political power. These findings support the view that stable democracy requires that all major groups in …

democracy to survive, it must be self-enforcing in the sense that all parties with the power to disrupt democracy – such as an … the new constitution is in place. Sustaining democracy involves the reciprocal ability to impose costs on the other group …

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 …