institutions, political survival, and policy success / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita ... [et al.] -- The compulsion of patronage …-political instability and the problem of development / Paul J. Zak -- Political institutions, economic growth, and democratic evolution: the … Pacific Asian scenario / Yi Feng ... [et al.] -- Democracy and the rule of law / Robert Barro -- Improving the effectiveness …

role of political culture and of its interaction with political institutions. Political culture reflects the extent of … individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … variable of the model along with formal political institutions. We focus on two agencies of political socialization: the family …

Economic Crisis and Democracy during the Great Depression -- 3 Institutions: Polarized Domestic Conflicts and Weak …Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Institutions, Interests, and Ideas in Explaining Regime Change … -- 1 Financial Shocks, Economic Crises, and Democracy: Theory and Practice -- PART I. GREAT DEPRESSION, 1929-34 -- 2 …