An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when … force making democracy less stable in societies with high social mobility: when the median voter expects to move up …

explain why resource abundance may lead to instability of democracy in some countries, but does not create any difficulties … to corruption (a measure of the institutional quality). The probability of the democracy preservation is decreasing in …

the media is evident. We then look at some broader comparative evidence on the role of the media in democracy to suggest … Chang et al. is that through its watchdog role, the media constrained the abuse of power and cleansed Italian democracy of … Italian case and in terms of the general relationship between the media and democracy? In the Italian case, many details of …

volatility as a two-equation system, and find that higher levels of democracy and diversification lower volatility, whereas … volatility itself reduces growth. Muslim countries instrument for democracy, and measures of diversification identify volatility …. In contrast to the lack of consensus on the democracy-growth relationship, the democracy-stability link is robust. Rather …

to democracy and vice versa (consistent with the recent theoretical work by Acemoglu and Robinson) but, unlike older …