The growing body of research on the relationship between the state and democracy has remained inconclusive both in … conceptualization and measurement of democracy and state capacity. Drawing on this argument, my study takes an original approach to the … attributes of democracy and state capacity-namely, civic participation and impartial bureaucracy-my study provides new evidence …

This paper investigates the relationship between democracy and antitrust policy. Strong antitrust policies advance the … interests of consumers. We examine the empirical relationship between democracy, inequality, and antitrust policies in a broad … panel of countries from 1951 to 2010. Using a variety of empirical strategies, we find that democracy is predictive of …

-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders notably increased satisfaction with democracy and shifted political support towards … centrist parties. Stay-at-home orders increased satisfaction with democracy most among individuals who had been exposed to the … restrictive state interventions. Moreover, we find suggestive evidence that satisfaction with democracy increases more among …

Experiments in deepening democracy through decentralized governance : an overview / Joseph Tharamangalam and Jos … Chathukulam -- Embedded democracy / Patrick Heller -- Socialist construction and commoning / Cliff DuRand -- Thinking beyond … social suffering in the context of COVID-19 / P. Sanal Mohan -- Democracy and capitalism in the time of COVID-19 / Henry …