As a result of the prevailing governance structure, economic policy in democracies usually suffers from specific … the governance structure of economic policy. It is suggested that a dual democratic legitimacyʺ should be introduced. 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 …