We are witnessing a global trend of democratic decline and constitutional decay marked by the rise of populist authoritarian leaders and parties. India has increasingly become a central case study of this phenomenon. This article focuses on one important aspect of India’s democratic decline...

I argue that the rule of law consists of many dimensions and that much information is lost when variables proxying for these dimensions are simply aggregated. I draw on the most important innovations from various legal traditions to propose a concept of the rule of law likely to find general...

This paper analyzes the relationship of ownership concentration and firm performance in the context of different institutional environments in 28 Central and Eastern European transition economies. Using the BEEPS data for the period from 2002 to 2009 we find an inverted u-shaped relation of...