We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

communism as a confirmation of the superiority of Western-style democracy over other political regimes. In the controversial …, questions: Does the international legal system display any preference for democracy over other domestic political regimes and … concurrent constitutional orders? If so, does the contemporary international order embrace any particular vision of democracy …

Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped … representative democracy. The basic association, however, is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous groups within a …

Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped … representative democracy. The basic association, however, is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous groups within a …

Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped … representative democracy. The basic association, however, is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous groups within a …