We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

democracy. With respect to risky choice behavior, a multitude of empirical evidence shows the disconformity of human behavior …, the political economy literature considers economic development itself as an important determinant of democracy. The fifth … study of the dissertation investigates the effect of income on democracy, based on the premise that the theory of critical …

the specific field of human rights and democracy promotion in the current changing global order. It examines recent … rights and democracy in the current multi-polar order …

Does the global economic crisis negatively impact the prospects of democratization around the world? This is a time … indexes of democracy, and different indicators of democracy, while controlling for region of the world, ethnic … democratization around the world. The intellectual interest for this effect is to understand if new democracies can survive the test …