The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …

We usually consider it progress when a country begins to shift from an autocratic to a democratic form of government …. However, the introduction of elections and other early trappings of democracy often has the perverse effect of exacerbating … democracy and capitalism--is to move to a governance structure based on impersonal rules that apply in the same way to everyone …

. Perfect democracy, where current members of the government do not have an incumbency advantage or special powers, always leads … to the emergencies of the most competent government. However, any deviation from perfect democracy destroys this result … least competent government can persist forever in office. Moreover, a greater degree of democracy may lead to worse …

. Perfect democracy, where current members of the government do not have an incumbency advantage or special powers, always leads … to the emergence of the most competent government. However, any deviation from perfect democracy destroys this result … least competent government can persist forever in office. Moreover, a greater degree of democracy may lead to worse …

government size, it addresses the concerns of Acemoglu( 2005) and makes some further refinements to argue that there is a … qualitatively large, and statistically significant relationship between constitution type and government size. The age of a … democracy is of increased importance in the new identification strategy, but existing measures are shown to be flawed. Two new …