with democracy. Assuming that temperatures, per-capita income, and per-capita emissions indicate sensitivity to climate …

For nearly two decades, the United States devoted more than $2 billion towards democracy promotion in the Middle East … allow democracy programs whose ultimate aim is to challenge the power of such regimes, Marketing Democracy examines the … construction and practice of democracy aid in Washington DC and in Egypt and Morocco, two of the highest recipients of US democracy …

I examine the relationship between democracy and the perceived risk of corruption in a panel of 130 countries. My panel … model controls for country fixed effects and enables the estimation of a within-country relationship between democracy and … corruption. My main finding is that democracy significantly reduces the risk of corruption, but only in countries where ethnic …

How does democracy emerge from authoritarian rule? Influential theories contend that incumbents deliberately choose to …