Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped … representative democracy. The basic association, however, is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous groups within a …

Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped … representative democracy. The basic association, however, is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous groups within a …

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 …

in Europe from 1750 to 1913. Old Regime polities typically suffered from fiscal fragmentation and absolutist rule. By the … start of World War I, however, many such countries had centralized institutions and limited government. Panel regressions …