outcomes of democracy by using excess mortality as a measure of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing this measure …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying the association with five different democracy measures, this study …

perspective the claim that biased beliefs lead to bad policy outcomes in democracy, as has been argued, for instance, by Bryan … Caplan (2007: The myth of the rational voter). We show that there is a self-correction mechanism in democracy that may … mitigate the problem of biased beliefs. Democracy is characterized by suffering from mediocre mixtures of populist and good …

The strong negative link between democracy and output volatility documented by Rodrik (2000) and others stands in sharp … contrast to the lack of consensus on the democracy-growth relationship. To explain stable growth performance in democracies we … qualities of available policy alternatives are uncertain, greater democracy (i.e. decentralization of decision-making authority …

a market economy requires sustained restrictions on democracy – the rule of law, strong property rights, and enforcement … – make constitutions more likely to survive. Democratic theorists who value unfettered democracy but who also value … also less stable. Further, countermajoritarian provisions are often necessary to the instantiation of democracy as …