This paper advances that the share of European descendants in the population is a major determinant of democracy in … in measures of democracy between the least and the most democratic countries in our sample. We control for other … potential determinants of democracy and test for endogeneity bias using instrumental variables. …

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic … and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are …