Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science …

sizeable share of total electoral volatility is due to fluctuations in voting for opposition parties that have belonged to …

economic inequality affects voting and other forms of political participation. This evidence is largely driven by advanced … and weaker states even though such evidence is central to understanding how democracy might be consolidated in such …. In line with prior theoretical expectations, we find a negative association between inequality and voting for the …

handouts, and voting behaviour of 900 voters randomly drawn from these family networks. We show first that campaigns …

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …

democratic governance. The analysis distinguishes between developmental aid and democracy aid, and examines democracy aid to …-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties … of Democracy project, employing a combination of a maximum likelihood estimation and structural equation modelling (ML …

paper seeks to address this gap by examining the impact of income inequality on democracy, focusing particularly on the … democracy. Combining democracy indicators from the V-Dem Project with inequality data from the World Income Inequality Dataset …, our empirical findings indicate no discernible net effect of inequality on democracy and no support for the predicted …

Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub … hypothesize that women who live under autocracy at home are less likely to support democracy outside, because it does not affect … democracy than women who do not, suggesting that democratic regimes may be more willing than are authoritarian regimes to …