Estimates of democracy's effect on the public sector are obtained from comparisons of 142 countries over the years 1960 …-90. Based on three tenets of voting theory -- that voting mutes policy preference intensity, political power is equally … distributed in democracies, and the form of voting processes is important -- we expect democracy to affect policies that …

at which capitalism and democracy spread between countries. We find that capitalism and democracy spread at approximately …

Estimates of democracy's effect on the public sector are obtained from comparisons of 142 countries over the years 1960 …-90. Based on three tenets of voting theory -- that voting mutes policy preference intensity, political power is equally … distributed in democracies, and the form of voting processes is important -- we expect democracy to affect policies that …

– Philippe Schmitter and Guillermo O’Donnell argue that the easy spread of democracy in the latest decades has much to do with … propositions: First, structural factors today impact the level of democracy more when it is understood in a relatively ‘thin … extent to which a set of structural factors have different scales of effects on thin and thick types of democracy differently …