The Transition Project
(1) Do democracy indices tell different stories? Comparing eight democracy indices 4th version December 2022. Also Economics Working Paper 2021-10
(1b) Net Appendix, revised April 2023
(2) Explaining the path of the democratic transition
Kyklos 78(3), 1142-57, July 2025 with two corrections of typos
(3) The transition of education. A cross-country macro approach
European Journal of Political Economy, 84, 102362, 2024
online February 2023
(3b) Net Appendix, revised January 2023
(4) Income, Growth, and Democracy. Looking for the causal structure
European Journal of Political Economy 83, 10232, 2024
(4b) Net Appendix, June 2023
(5) Do relatively democratic countries grow faster?
Revised December 2024
(5b) Net Appendix, July 2023
(6) Can democracy and religiosity explain corruption?
An empirical study of the long run using cross-country data
New expanded version. July 2024
The OPEC, MENA, and Arab project
(7) The OPEC/MENA/Arab nexus and the missing democratic transition
New expanded version. June 2025, with Net Appendix:
(8) The economic system of oil countries. Political capitalism? Second version. June 2025, with Net Appendix
(8b) Net Appendix to (7) and (8) June 2025