We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect … of democracy on institutional quality is increasing in people's human capital. Using a new panel data set, covering 140 …

institutions, political survival, and policy success / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita ... [et al.] -- The compulsion of patronage …-political instability and the problem of development / Paul J. Zak -- Political institutions, economic growth, and democratic evolution: the … Pacific Asian scenario / Yi Feng ... [et al.] -- Democracy and the rule of law / Robert Barro -- Improving the effectiveness …

positive association between democracy and economic growth is driven by endogenous democratization episodes (i.e., due to …This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a worldwide survey of 165 country-specific democracy experts conducted for …