This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a worldwide survey of 165 country-specific democracy experts conducted for … these more exogenous democratizations strongly indicates that democracy does not cause growth. Consequently, the common …

democracy. With respect to risky choice behavior, a multitude of empirical evidence shows the disconformity of human behavior …, the political economy literature considers economic development itself as an important determinant of democracy. The fifth … study of the dissertation investigates the effect of income on democracy, based on the premise that the theory of critical …