This paper introduces a new approach to examine the relationship between income and democracy by employing panel count … data models to explicitly allow for the fact that the primary indices of democracy are non-negative integers with upper … bounds. We find evidence that though income and democracy are positively related the magnitude of the coefficient is …

We revisit Lipset‘s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using … democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …

variance in the extent to which democracy constrains state violations of human rights? We assume that an executiveâ … state terror. Our results suggest that pursuing democracy is a useful way to reduce political violence, both directly and …

remains unclear. Does democracy motivate terrorists to engage in hostage-taking acts because of how easy negotiating with a … democratic government is? Or does democracy impose ‘audience costs’ on the government leaders, driving them never to … finds strong evidence that supports this theory, showing that democracy has competing effects on hostage-taking terrorism â …

Robert Dahl is a well-known defender of workplace democracy. This article examines the assumptions and logic that … the explication of Dahl's position on workplace democracy, several broader features of his social and political theorizing …

the empirical analysis of democracy, and proposes a more refined typology of ‘anti-system parties’. …

This paper discusses the role of electoral institutional design in Mexico’s transition to democracy. Our argument is …