Why do some democracies persist while others break down? Some studies have suggested that economic development decreases the likelihood of authoritarian reversal, which is consistent with Milton Friedman's argument that economic freedom is necessary for political freedom. An empirical...

This paper aims at analysing the effect of democratic institutions on environmental quality (carbon dioxide per capita, sulfure dioxide per capita) and at identifying potential channel transmissions. We use panel data from 1960 to 2008 in 122 developing and developed countries and modern...

A minority of contemporary scholars of comparative politics research among them Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba (1963), Ronald Inglehart and Wayne E. Baker (2000), Marck I. Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman (2009) Robert Pastor (1999), Shaheen Mozaffar and Andreas Schedler (2002) have long...