Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy …, and this question has gained critical importance particularly in the African context, where a wave of democratization in … 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period of 1982-2012, we find strong evidence that democracy is positively …

Benin, a low-income West African country that underwent a fairly successful democratization process in the early 1990s. It … its extractive capacities since democratization. However, the effect of democratization has been largely indirect, while …

Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science …

linkages between trade unions, democratization and union democracy and concludes with a reflection on the new concerns about … sustaining industrial and political democracy; however, there is a debate about the conditions under which unions can be … effective, and the role of unions’ internal democracy is particularly controversial. The article discusses the theoretical …

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …