aid generally supports rather than hinders democracy building around the world; ii) aid modalities influence the … 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 …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

Acemoglu et al. (Democracy does cause growth, 2014) about regional democratization waves. According to this theory … between regional waves of democratization and a country's own regime; however democracy still has a positive effect on direct … the period 1993-2012. His main explanatory variable will be a dichotomous measure of democracy; but he alters his analysis …