Any account of the social and economic conditions of democracy must come to terms with
the central finding of the cross-national statistical research: a sturdy (though not perfect) …

The contributors to this volume address questions central to the development and survival of
democratic rule. Brought together under the auspices of a Nobel Symposium on democracy …

The problem why some countries are democracies and some others are not has interested
me since I read SM Lipset's seminal book Political Man at the beginning of the 1960s. My …

Economic markets are a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for democracy, but is
democracy a requirement for efficient economic markets? The first relationship is widely …

This paper surveys the literature on how democracy affects economic growth. The paper first
presents descriptive statistics and brief case-descriptions to illustrate how democracy and …

This prediction was not specific to China. Until quite recently, conventional wisdom has held
that economic development, wherever it occurs, will lead inevitably-and fairly quickly-to …

The authors show that economic development increases the probability that a country will
undergo a transition to democracy. These results contradict the finding of Przeworski and his …

This paper develops a taxonomy of political regimes that distinguishes between three sets of
rights—property rights, political rights and civil rights. The truly distinctive nature of liberal …

Concerned by illiberalism and conflict in new democracies, some analysts advocate
democratic sequencing—putting off democracy until the rule of law and a well-functioning …

What incentives explain the emergence of government? How do the incentives facing the
leaders of dictatorial and democratic governments differ? Do the democratic nations of the …