Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per … capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show … terror per capita. Democracy, previously associated with more casualties, emerges as a marginally negative predictor of …

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

rest of the Arab World. We find that high and upper-middle income countries are immune to democracy shocks in Egypt …We examine the role of democracy shocks in the cross-country economic growth processes over a period of five decades … since 1960. The recent uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world form the main context of our …

migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). … Arbeitslosenrate (Kapitel 5) sowie der Dynamik von Demokratie und Einkommen (Kapitel 6). …