This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling …

Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we …

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling …

themselves. Culture shapes attitudes towards bribery, but the western world fails to exhibit the expected moral rigor. -- Civil …