This essay critically evaluates the analytic literature concerned with causal connections
between Islam and economic performance. It focuses on works since 1997, when this …

A considerable debate precludes drawing conclusions about oil's effect on democracy. This
article challenges this stalemate by significantly expanding the scope of the previous …

This paper examines the factors affecting the Muslim medical tourists' satisfaction, and the
role of their attitudes in shaping their clinical experience based on the expectation …

What determines the emergence and survival of democracy? The authors apply extreme
bounds analysis to test the robustness of fifty-nine factors proposed in the literature …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy
and present an extensive update of the Machine Learning indicator of Gründler and Krieger …

We compiled data on all United Nations General Assembly resolutions on which voting took
place between January 1990 and June 2013 and find a preoccupation with one country: in …

The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and
measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on …

PROPERLY TRANSLITERATING WORDS from Arabic and Per-sian into English is a task
best left to linguists. To avoid confusion, in this book I have used the most popularized …

About 90 countries have adopted Freedom of Information (FOI) laws with the objective of
facilitating citizens' right to access information on government activities expeditiously. It is …

Previous empirical studies have found that the institutions and policies of democracies are
generally more supportive of economic freedom than authoritarian political regimes. This …