Democracy as manifested in the observance of people's political rights to elect and be elected, hence participation has gained ground over the past decade, and is found to impact positively and significantly, economic growth and income per capita, but negatively and insignificantly with poverty...

Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS...