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

Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized … process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly forgotten procedure to overcome this deficit: Aleatoric Democracy based on … considered. Persons and ideas, being so far disregarded, are taken into account. Democracy becomes vivid and creative, and does …

with different intensities of democracy. Specifically, we consider the implications of political (dis)parity between the … between the elites and citizens, and the ability of the incumbent government to accrue political rents. The paper provides a … unified framework to study the direct and indirect effects of democracy by combining state capacity investment and …

governmental levels. Over all, it is shown that the individ-ual preferences have a stronger impact in a direct democracy than in a …

Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized … process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly forgotten procedure to overcome this deficit: Aleatoric Democracy based on … considered. Persons and ideas, being so far disregarded, are taken into account. Democracy becomes vivid and creative, and does …

decisions, even when the event affecting well-being is beyond government’s control …

In "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy", Robert D. Woodberry (2012) claims that the emergence of stable … alternative democracy measures and extend the time period over which the democracy measures are averaged. These two simple … development of democracy, which raises concerns about the robustness and broader applicability of Woodberry's findings. We discuss …

might have opposite effects on the size of government. We investigate empirically this possibility using data from a panel … of 104 countries from 1960. We find that reforms enhancing political competition tend to limit the size of government …, while reforms increasing political participation tend to increase the size of government. These results are robust for the …