qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are … qualities of democracy, we find that while the frequency of change has a beneficial impact on the qualities of democracy, the …

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 …

stronger political institutions, as measured by democracy indicators, manage to alleviate some of the adverse effects of US …

democratic and good governance practices on environmental policy success. The findings reveal that democracy and government … structures. The robustness of these results is confirmed using alternative democracy and governance indicators. Additionally, the …

We examine the diversification of administrative and procedural costs on patent stock using a large dataset from the …

Does diversification of an economy improve the chances of democracy? This paper estimates the effect of export … diversification on democracy levels, using data from 143 countries. The endogeneity of diversification is addressed by using … diversification has a significant, positive effect on levels of democracy. This suggests that less concentrated economic power in a …

This paper studies the evolution of sectoral labor concentration in relation to the level of per capita income. We show … that various measures of sectoral concentration follow a U-shaped pattern across a wide variety of data sources: countries … diversification in the context of high trading costs, and the benefits of specialization in a Ricardian sense …