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 …

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 …

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

using a dataset of 112 countries over the period 1970-2015. Our empirical analysis shows that democracy allows workers to … appropriate a higher share of national income. The evidence is robust to different indices of democracy and different periods of … recent global decline in the labor income share and current crisis of democracy. …

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …