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 …

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and …

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 …Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are …

theorists have often stressed that democracy is in troubles when its population is not broadly uniform in income and wealth … connections between economic inequality and democracy, however, are not easy to detect and the body of literature is not so large … and to offer some hints on the political relevance of the inequality consequences, if any, on democracy …

Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science …

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … the essential of democracy. It could be a road to genuine reforms3 preventing a disaster caused by the sheer rejection of …

, educate, and inform ourselves. Africa, despite having a very low number of fixed-broadband subscriptions for 100 inhabitants …