The linkage between income inequality and citizens’ support for democracy has widely been discussed in the literature … conditions) is regarded as ”unfair”. Using multiple state-of-the-art estimation methods comparable IOp measures for 27 former … concept of democracy while overall income inequality has no statistically significant effect. This observation can be …

Demokratie und Marktwirtschaften vollzogen. Das unterlegene Wirtschaftssystem wurde durch ein leistungsfähigeres ersetzt und … theoretisch und die Entwicklung der Einkommensverteilung empirisch dargestellt. Die Befunde belegen, dass derartige Dilemmata …

Assumptions about the democracy promoting qualities of transitional justice measures abound. However the relatively few … policies have affected democratization. First, this paper demonstrates a robust democracy boost from lustration policies. In …; extensive lustration provides a democracy boost of approximately 30%, even controlling for macroeconomic and political factors …

religious and imperial history on economic evolution. As a result, the divergence in democracy and political rights is 4 to 5 … times larger than the divergence in the path towards economic freedom and ease of doing business. Democracy is not harder to …