... democracy has had a global impact. European practices were exported, imported, and imposed. This is not to say that Europeans invented the very practice of democracy. Likewise, as democracy has spread to the non-European world, it has taken on local inflections that often hail back to practices and terms...

... institutions democracy culture Our understanding of the historical origins of economic growth has been revolutionized in recent years by historical research, by better data, and by theoretical work in both economics and political science. Although the field is still changing, what we now know...

... the extension of the franchise (i.e., democracy), was not needed. This framework can help understand institutional persistence after the breakdown of colonial rule. * I want to thank the reviewers, editor, Amrita Dhillon, and participants at EPSA, ECPR, Universidad San Francisco, Flacso-Ecuador and Queen...