-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has …Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the … hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course …

therefore focus on what happens to the quality of judicial institutions and political corruption around coup attempts and other …, our results suggest that successful coups are associated with degradation of institutions, with successful military coups …

of political institutions across regions and societies. The study establishes that, while human diversity has amplified … autocratic institutions. A larger degree of human diversity within societies diminished cohesiveness and therefore stimulated the … institutions towards extractive, autocratic ones. Developing a novel geo-referenced dataset of genetic diversity and ethnographic …

We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model …

all. Our empirical evidence does, however, support not only the "primacy of institutions" view, but also the important …

This study provides evidence that strong kin networks are detrimental for democratic participatory institutions and … the emergence of participatory institutions. I show that weak ancestral kin networks are positively associated with …-governed cities with participatory institutions. Moreover, within Christian Europe, stricter regional and temporal marriage …

The contention that “inclusive” institutions are the deep determinants of economic growth remains unsatisfactory. This … the feedback loops among institutions, political power and economic structures, thus, markets on their own will not ensure …