democracy of a handful of variables. It shows that poverty, Communism and the Muslim culture are the main barriers to democracy …This study first uses a set of graphs and tables to present the pattern of democracy in the world, using the Gastil …

of the last variable is problematic: It could point to some antidemocratic aspect of Arab culture (though this appears …

We look at the relation between democracy and perceived subjective well-being, taking also into account the impact of … income and culture. After briefly reviewing the empirical results for Switzerland, we re-estimate this relationship allowing … robust relationship between the extent of (direct) democracy and happiness can be observed. In a second step, we conduct a …