This article explores Protestantism's inadvertent, historic role in dispersing elite power and spurring democracy … printing and civil society and spurred competitors to copy. Resultant power dispersion altered elite incentives and increased … Protestant and Catholic missionaries. Protestant missions account for about half the variation in non-European democracy and …

In this report, the authors analyze Germany's support to democracy. Human rights and democracy have been core values of … means to promote human rights and democracy. Its substantial democracy aid is determined in part by recipient countries … to criticize electoral fraud where democracy has already taken root. In general, German governments have tried to …

those wielding power in the global domain is in principle a desirable goal, and agree with proponents of ‘global democracy …For many people throughout the world, the ideal of democracy is now accepted – at least in principle – as the pre …-eminent source of political authority and legitimacy. Accordingly, as global-level systems of power, interconnection and organized …