A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a … gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females … are less supportive of democracy than males in a number of countries. Using data for 20 Sub-Saharan African countries, we …

Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub … democracy in this region. This paper addresses the question of whether this observed gender gap is due to the omission of social … institutions related to gender inequality, something that affects women's daily life and deprives them of autonomy at home. We …

analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa …The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the …. This result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally …

In the quest for the attainment of democracy with its fully unleashed potentials, the role of information and … democracy indicators. The analysis is carried out by applying the instrumental variables (IV) Tobit regression to the data to … model. The study finds that weak democracy is detrimental to the effect of mobile phone penetration on integrated governance …