convergence toward extremism hold or the cycles of extremism hold when the state of the world follows a Markov process without …

In his excellent book Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens, Josiah Ober argues that … ancient Athenian democracy surmounted the dangers of political ignorance and made effective use of dispersed citizen knowledge … to forge good public policy. He effectively demonstrates that Athenian democracy was more successful than the oligarchic …

protecting democracy from creeping oligarchy served up one campaign contribution at a time. As evidenced by Town of Greece v …. Galloway, the Supreme Court is not protecting democracy from creeping theocracy served up one public prayer at a time. In both …

, democracy. We apply the model to ancient Greece. Many of the famously democratic poleis (city-states) of Greece’s Classical … period were ruled by tyrants in the earlier Archaic period. The tyrannies of Archaic Greece were transitory institutions …, Archaic period tyranny, and Classical period democracy. We conclude that a high potential for economic growth led to a pro …

freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies rule, suggest that electoral democracy may not be the … provide a firmer foundation. We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal …

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). …