. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

It is well-known in the literature that income per capita is strongly correlated with the level of democracy across … income to democracy even after controlling for country-specific effects. While a positive effect emerges for poor countries …

income and democracy. Using dynamic panel data estimation techniques that account for short-run cross-country heterogeneity … in the relationship between income and democracy and that correct for potential cross-section error dependence, we … overturn the literature's recent set of findings of the absence of any significant relationship between income and democracy …

the effects of development as well as changing unobserved country effects in driving democracy at these different stages … of political development. We find income and education have the least effect on democracy when authoritarian regimes are … help and hurt democracy depending again on what the country’s institutional legacies are. Far from accepting the notion …

66 developing countries over the period 1990-2005, this paper provides econometric evidence that democracy matters for … insufficiently welfare minded. We found that high levels of democracy are specifically needed in natural resource rich countries to …