, and considers definitions of "normalcy" that incorporate the concepts of free market, democracy, and government efficiency ….The author provides an estimate of Russia s institutional convergence to the standards of the G7 and the Big Five group of large …, middle-income countries that includes Brazil, China, and India.In some areas Russia outperforms "Big Five" countries, in …

, and considers definitions of "normalcy" that incorporate the concepts of free market, democracy, and government efficiency …. The author provides an estimate of Russia’s institutional convergence to the standards of the G7 and the “Big Five” group … of large, middle-income countries that includes Brazil, China, and India. In some areas Russia outperforms "Big Five …

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 …

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …