and severity of the economic crisis and on the design of the reforms, but very much also on the political economy of …: - the power of sections of the economy and polity that will lose from effective implementation; - the political independence …-term. Scenario building integrates other independent trends (e.g. declining power base of a party in power) as well as unforeseeable …

addition, consistent with recent research on the importance of party organization and the organizational differences between …This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries … central, but still contested, assumption of the political economy literature, left-wing governments redistribute more. In …

of an (inter)dependent world. These principles aim at strengthening "responsible party government," the preeminent form …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …