networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

democracy (186 countries, 1960-2014). The method takes its name from a machine learning technique for pattern recognition and … economic development, and find that democracies grow faster than autocracies. Furthermore, we illustrate how the estimation … results are affected by conceptual and methodological changes in the measure of democracy. In particular, we show that …

I argue that whether or not a state is predatory hinges on the relationship between development and the distribution of … political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo and this …

development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density … countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy-environment …

are not related to the occurrence of an accident. Such a mechanism requires individuals to violate the standard of care in …

difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities … democracy. We survey a long period in the quest for such new forms and point to next inventions for such forms. We suggest to … experiment with new ways for democracy to extend the choice of democratic processes that can be implemented in real …

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

fixed ex post, but this is what the Icelandic Parliament is at present trying to do, flirting with a farewell to democracy. …

education on the support for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People's Party (CHP) among male and …

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …