"The authors use a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms. Democracy may be … economic institutions. The results provide robust support for the claim that democracy is good for growth-enhancing reforms …

the functioning of direct democracy. As a political system it only makes sense if there exists a continuous process and … not if only occasional single questions are brought to a referendum. Then, the relation between direct democracy and the … points that should be observed to safeguard the well-functioning of direct democracy. …

coincided with a deepening in Turkish democracy under the prodding and the guidance of the European Union, and witnessed the …