According to a wide literature, oil has a negative effect on the level of democracy because of induced economic and … an estimate of the oil-democracy demultiplier. Moreover, we obtain an indicator of the surplus/deficit of democracy …

deliberative democracy in an non-laboratory setting, using a unique dataset collected from transcripts of deliberation that … credible: its preferences approach the pivotal agent in a pure representative democracy, the median household. These effects …

NGOs represent a potential tool of putting good use of democracy. Civil society through NGOs is a permanent participant … population. Democracy is the rule of law when the legislature is subject to dialogue, when the effects of the pros and cons on …

Political institutions, additionally to economic, international and cultural “conditions of democracy”, appear as the … necessary prime “framework” (as the set of rules, forms and procedures) for the democracy to emerge and consolidate. Political …

persistent? I show that cross-country differences in schooling are related to political institutions, such as democracy and local … democracy (political decentralization), which are affected by colonial factors. By using the number of native cultures before …

acknowledging positionality is consistent with affirming the universal value of democracy. This article builds on Sen's work by … proposing an analysis of democracy as a set of institutions that aims to intelligently utilize positional information for shared … ends. This epistemological analysis of democracy offers a way to understand the rationale for reserving political offices …

that democracy by itself does not play an important explanatory role, while the specific type of political system …