Against recent criticism, this article demonstrates that the Index of Effective Democracy (EDI) has scale properties that are fully consistent with the normative premises of the index‘s construction logic. Empirically, it is shown that the EDI deviates from all other indices of democracy in a...

[Introduction] In two widely read articles, Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk reach the alarming conclusion that support for democracy is in a rapid generational decline. The remarkable point about this diagnosis is its emphasis on the Millennial generation's fading support for democracy and the...

This paper discusses correlations between certain genetic characterestics of the human populations and their aggregate levels of tolerance and happiness. We argue that a major cause of the systematic clustering of genetic characteristics may be climatic conditions linked with relatively high or...