-sectional variation in the data. Our semi-parametric estimates show that parametric methods might underestimate the effect of democracy on …’s transition to democracy of about 9% points, but there is no effect when the political regime shifts from democracy to autocracy …

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

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 …

migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

Democracy and civic involvement are core values of contemporary Europe. To what extent do citizens’ attitudes relate …

, democracy. We apply the model to ancient Greece. Many of the famously democratic poleis (city-states) of Greece’s Classical …, Archaic period tyranny, and Classical period democracy. We conclude that a high potential for economic growth led to a pro …-growth political institution (the tyrant) that led in turn to increased wealth and, eventually, to democracy. These findings are …

exploring theoretically and empirically how enlargement of multi-level systems like the EU affects satisfaction with democracy …