There is an ongoing debate on the relationship between Islam, oil wealth and (lack of) democracy. Considerable … democracy, especially in oil-rich economics. This study examines the effects of formal institutions, specifically constitutions … that prescribe Shari'a law as a source of legislation, on democracy. We use a newly developed coding of the degree to which …

This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects attitudes toward democracy and policy preferences. The … from 90 countries. The results show that the support for democracy increases with age and, at the same time, depends on … cohort-specific factors that are related to past experiences with democracy and socioeconomic status. The findings shed new …

We present a novel approach for measuring democracy based on Support Vector Machines, a mathematical algorithm for … pattern recognition. The Support Vector Machines Democracy Index (SVMDI) is continuously on the 0-1-interval and enables a … very detailed measurement of democracy for 188 countries between 1981 and 2011. Application of the SVMDI highlights a …

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by replacing socialism with populism. According to Samuelson, "populist democracy" had … makes his reformulation of Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy seem more plausible. The objective of this paper is to review …

In this paper we examine the interrelatedness between regime types of democracy and non-democracy and poverty reduction …

contributed to a crisis of faith in political governance in general, and in particular a loss of confidence in democracy as a … democracy in particular, is to provide policy stability, anchored in societal consensus, for essential economic reforms. This is …

-linearities. I adopt and explore the concept of “political capital” as a measure of democracy, which is extremely uncommon in the … intermediate democracy level. For more evolved democracies, further democratization may impact growth negatively, negligibly or … when accounting for more and less direct effects of democracy. Results for the more direct avenue are more optimistic …