Is there any relation between education and democracy? Once we correct for weak instruments and identify education as … 'weakly exogenous' we find new evidence that education systematically predicts democracy. Our results are robust across model …

We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices … produces upward-biased OLS and 2SLS estimates. The results of an analysis of the effect of democracy on economic growth show …

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 …

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 …

African countries for the period 1994-2010. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income … that democracy has an edge over autocracy while the latter and polity overlap. As a policy implication, democracy once …

propensity to effect policies that favour the development of financial intermediary depth, activity and size. Democracy has … policies towards financial development. As a policy implication, once democracy is initiated, it should be accelerated (to edge …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A … democracy that takes into account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a …

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 …

timely adoption of a state budget. The article then discusses concepts of deliberative democracy and how local residents … democracy techniques discussed …

In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail … to be realized when democracy is captured by the richer segments of the population; when it caters to the preferences of …