democracy. With respect to risky choice behavior, a multitude of empirical evidence shows the disconformity of human behavior …, the political economy literature considers economic development itself as an important determinant of democracy. The fifth … study of the dissertation investigates the effect of income on democracy, based on the premise that the theory of critical …

homelands in the aftermath of World War II. The econometric analyses are based on different micro data sets and employ micro …

homelands in the aftermath of World War II. The econometric analyses are based on different micro data sets and employ micro …

Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu … variable democracy. Contrary to the results of Acemoglu et al. (2008), some support of causality is found particularly when … explaining heteroscedasticity. We also find democracy is a bimodal variable and approximate the distribution using two separate …