democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

causes democracy. Existing studies establish a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, but do not … country fixed effects removes the statistical association between income per capita and various measures of democracy. We also … on democracy. Furthermore, we reconcile the positive cross-country correlation between income and democracy with the …

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 …

democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

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). …

country's income goes up. (Overall level of democracy in the world however has no effect on growth.) The effect of colonialism … the effect of democracy on growth, was colonialism economically bad for colonies, does protectionism affect growth …The paper uses the recently available data on growth rates, democracy, protectionism, and wars over the period 1820 to …

capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy. We argue that existing studies and support for this … affect both the level of income per capita and the likelihood of democracy in a country, and failing to control for these … factors may introduce a spurious relationship between income and democracy. We show that controlling for these historical …