between capitalism and democracy, combining economic theory and historical description to analyse long-run economic …

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 …

It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and … footloose nor unconstrained: it thrives under democracy precisely because it cannot subvert it. Populism, inequality, and … poverty are indeed great scourges of our time, but these are failures of democracy and must be solved by democracy. …