This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of the conditions of self-enforcing democracy by analyzing … contrast, low degrees of corruption and strongly separated powers can be viewed as prerequisites to self-enforcing democracy. …

political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The results reveal that support for democracy increases with age and is … heterogeneity in experiences with democracy, and that socioeconomic factors impact democratic attitudes. …

This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects attitudes toward democracy and policy preferences. The … from 90 countries. The results show that the support for democracy increases with age and, at the same time, depends on … cohort-specific factors that are related to past experiences with democracy and socioeconomic status. The findings shed new …

political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The results reveal that support for democracy increases with age and is … heterogeneity in experiences with democracy, and that socioeconomic factors impact democratic attitudes. …

democratization and therefore prefer political institutions with strong veto players. Parallel civilian interests conversely suffer … democratizations are partially planned while most democratization events from civilian autocracy are either unforeseen or poorly … planned. Exploring the characteristics of 111 democratization episodes between 1950 and 2015, I find a number of features …

This study analyzes the dynamic impact of democratization on receipt of foreign aid. Since the 1990s, this relationship … democratic recipients and particularly countries undergoing democratization with higher aid. Is this empirically the case … address these questions, this study conceives democratization as a two-phase process of 'early transition' and 'democratic …