’ persistent characteristics, such as their institutions. Among our findings are that macroeconomic policies affect development …

the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of geographic endowments on development. …

of national income per capita and democracy may not be positively correlated. The model is also useful for understanding …

-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth … of countries that experienced a transition to autocracy with the growth of a convex combination of similar countries that … statistical framework, in a panel of 160 countries, we focus on 14 episodes of transition from democracy to autocracy. We find …

explain why presidential democracy leads to faster growth than parliamentary democracy. Third, it is important to distinguish … growth effect of democracy. …Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited …

political science, sociology, psychology, law and anthropology) is fruitful to explain institutions because it allows us to …

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …