A democratic regime is assumed to implement freedom and equality as the two critical and most important values. The … question we intend to address here is: how and why has the actual implementation of freedom and equality been changing in the … show how there are three different paths in the future of democracy: balanced democracy, protest democracy, and …

of equality and freedom is and what relation between the two is essential to a good political order. Views range from the … conviction that too much socio-economic equality jeopardises freedom to the position that a certain level of equality is … necessary for the proper realisation of freedom. Building on these conflicting normative claims, we look at data from more than …

only to OECD countries but also to non-OECD countries; also (iii) utilizing an estimation method that takes into account …

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …