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 …

development in its different stages. Firstly, we identify the three development stages that prevailed in the world between 1996 … and 2011 according to the income classification of the World Bank corroborated with data from the UNDP Human Development …

causes a large increase in democracy known as the democratic transition. Elsewhere we have shown that it is almost as strong …