This article challenges cross-sectional findings that democracy has a negligible effect on growth. We employ a new dataset of political transitions during the Third Wave of Democratisation and examine the within effect of democratisation in countries that abandoned autocracy and consolidated representative institutions. The panel estimates imply that on average democratisations are associated w...

What explains the divergent political paths that the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have followed since the fall of the Berlin Wall? While some appear today to be consolidated democracies, others have all the features of consolidated autocracy. This study reviews the patterns of change and examines correlates of progress towards democracy. Variation acros...

This paper adopts a view of organizations as complex adaptive systems and makes a case for making organizations more complex internally through the use of a fairly simple managerial rule using participative decision making. Participation in decision making enhances connectivity in organizations, which in turn, gives the organization the opportunity to self-organize and co-evolve in more effecti...

Will the information technology revolution make autocratic regimes easier to overthrow? Probably not. I describe a game between one such regime and a large number of individuals. Individuals face a coordination problem: the more people act against the regime, the more likely it is to be overthrown and the greater the incentive for any individual to also act against it. Individual decisions are ...

TO THE EDITOR: Here are two puzzling questions. How to reconcile the existence of a rapid stimulus to breathe originating from the circulatory system, which we (3) and others have long tried to characterize (4), with the observation that breathing remains unchanged for tens of seconds or even minutes at the onset of a cardiac arrest (2), whether at rest or following a muscular exercise? How the...

In this article we argue that the story of Star Wars has much to tell us about perennial questions constitutional design. The series offers a rich cinematic exploration some most pressing real-life issues politics and constitutionalism is, suggest, fruitful source insight for design regulation. This proceeds in three parts. Part I, sketch political context which grounds our analysis, outlining ...