tend to rely more heavily on private schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private decision on education and … fertility with voting on public education expenditures. The theory is able to account for the facts mentioned above. Countries …

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …

-period model of a representative democracy with two overlapping generations. The government’s preferred immigration rate increases …

creating these institutions. I build a model of direct democracy that explains why a representative might benefit from tying … that some politicians benefit from the introduction of direct democracy, since they are more likely to survive … representative elections: direct democracy credibly prevents politicians from realising extreme outcomes. Historical evidence from …

subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competition are substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits … democracy, and rulers are less eager to oppose it, when external competition is high. In a panel of countries, there are fewer … changes towards democracy when states have low GDP relative to their neighbours. -- political competition ; dictatorship …

. To identify the reasons for this insufficient implementation in the past decade the Public Choice theory is used. The …

will of the majority (often defined as “people” by populist movements) and support direct democracy as the only political … winner of an electoral competition coincides with the one that citizens would choose by means of direct democracy. We find … fulfilled, the equivalence between direct democracy and representative democracy ceases to exist and disaffection in …

extend the analysis to Liquid Democracy and find that, while it can be well suited to small scales communities, it faces …