Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal … civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide … mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of …

Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal … civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide … mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of …

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …