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 …

In the quest for the attainment of democracy with its fully unleashed potentials, the role of information and … democracy indicators. The analysis is carried out by applying the instrumental variables (IV) Tobit regression to the data to … model. The study finds that weak democracy is detrimental to the effect of mobile phone penetration on integrated governance …

This study adds to the body of existing literature on the relationship between democracy and terrorism by investigating … the impact of democracy on terrorism in 26 African countries. The study utilises a robust measure of democracy known as … the varieties of democracy index which has been observed in literature to be more superior to conventional measures of …

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa. This … result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally stood …

This study provides empirical evidence on the impact of militarization, governance, and democracy on human rights in … revealed that militarization significantly increases human rights violation in the region, while governance and democracy … of democracy on human rights is stronger in countries where the existing level of human rights is high. Policy …

democracy.The focus in the second half of the chapter shifts to democracy itself, and analysis of the burgeoning literature … concerned with the nature of EU democracy, the extent to which the EU suffers from a democratic deficit and the ways in which it … democracy, which leads to differences of view on aspects of the democratic deficit critique. The discussion will draw on …

, the First Amendment has been weaponized, frustrating a basic requirement of a healthy democracy: the development of a set … serve our democracy …

framework for the substantive theories discussed in Delivering Democracy: Policy Voting or Government Alternation? also posted … Introduction to How Democracy Works, pp 416-425 (Abingdon UK, Routledge 2019 …

of democracy in Venezuela. The decisions of the Chamber are examined from the standpoint of their impact on the … fundamental dimensions of constitutional democracy. For this purpose, the political-institutional context in which the … have participated in the erosion of democracy and the Rule of Law. All this reveals the key support that the Constitutional …

What could go wrong if we allow democracy to be democratic about its participatory qualifications? In this paper, I …