We experimentally investigate whether the procedural history of a sanctioning institution affects cooperation in a … impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical … partly affects cooperation. While there is no positive democracy effect when the institution is implemented, the vote …

The Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset (Historical V-Dem) is a new dataset containing about 260 indicators, both … 1920 for many cases. The majority of the indicators are also included in the Varieties of Democracy dataset, which covers … the period from 1900 to the present – and together these two datasets cover the bulk of “modern history”. Historical V …