This paper advances that the share of European descendants in the population is a major determinant of democracy in …¤erence in measures of democracy between the least and the most democratic countries in our sample. We control for other … potential determinants of democracy and test for endogeneity bias using instrumental variables. …

political institutions (Democracy) and economic institutions (Rule of Law). One of the main findings of this paper is that the …

persistent? I show that cross-country differences in schooling are related to political institutions, such as democracy and local … democracy (political decentralization), which are affected by colonial factors. By using the number of native cultures before …

the effect of democracy on growth, was colonialism economically bad for colonies, does protectionism affect growth … country’s income goes up. (Overall level of democracy in the world however has no effect on growth.) The effect of colonialism …The paper uses the recently available data on growth rates, democracy, protectionism, and wars over the period 1820 to …

The article features a temporal approach to modelling the social impact of Western colonialism. We collect a data set … scramble for Africa. When we broaden the analysis, it is shown that the positive effect of colonial duration on democracy is … that a long history of statehood is bad for democracy while there is almost no effect of the national identity of the …