credentials and legitimacy. The normative appraisal depends on the conception of democracy adopted. While critics frequently … espouse a majoritarian conception, this paper argues that it is too thin of a model of democracy. Alternatively, it argues … that a pluralistic conception of liberal democracy is thicker, and truer to the fundamental values of liberty and political …

, students and even politicians. There is a sense in which it is regarded as a manifesto of traditional liberalism. But the book …

with different intensities of democracy. Specifically, we consider the implications of political (dis)parity between the … unified framework to study the direct and indirect effects of democracy by combining state capacity investment and …

new instrument for democracy and the extension of the franchise, the effect of decolonisation on democracy in the … colonising country's democratisation to identify the causal effect of democracy on heights. We find robust evidence of a link … between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …