This paper uses Freedom House ratings to assess the impact of foreign aid on democracy. We employ an interval … aid on democracy in 122 countries between 1972 and 2011 finds a significant positive relationship that survives various …

The aim of this paper is to trace, comparatively, the path of both development and democracy among Former Soviet … Republics (FSRs) and Central Eastern European Countries (CEECs). Democracy is defined using the concept of Dahl (1971) who … refers to “contestation” as the essential feature of democracy. Development is identified with the general progress of human …

citizens on democracy. The instrumental variables regressions with a panel of 122 countries over the period 1981–2008 suggest … that revenues have on average a mild positive effect on democracy. …

medium term declines in democracy in the intervened country. We observe a similar size effect for Soviet interventions, but … intervention ends, an intervention has a large effect on democracy when it lasts for a long time. …

improvement. Instrumental variables estimates indicate that following a negative income shock of one percentage point, democracy …

policy choice in a representative democracy when voters do not fully anticipate a politician's strategic behavior to … partially. Limited sophistication crucially determines how welfare under representative democracy compares to welfare under … alternative political institutions such as direct democracy or governance by experts. We find that, under limited strategic …

This paper studies the endogenous emergence of political regimes, in particular democracy, oligarchy and mass …. The main results imply that under any economic environment a distribution of resources exists such that democracy is the … sufficiently large. On the other hand, there are distributions of resources for which democracy is infeasible in equilibrium …