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 …

We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al … democracy. The zero-one-inflated beta distribution is more appropriate for continuous but bounded responses with non … democracy variables. Since our analysis highlights that the distribution of democracy is bimodal, we approximate the modes using …

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). …

It is well-known in the literature that income per capita is strongly correlated with the level of democracy across … income to democracy even after controlling for country-specific effects. While a positive effect emerges for poor countries …