This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). … Arbeitslosenrate (Kapitel 5) sowie der Dynamik von Demokratie und Einkommen (Kapitel 6). …

democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and …