Abstract
AbstractWe investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal freedom. While judicial independence is positively and robustly related to personal freedom in all its forms, electoral democracy displays a robust, positive relationship with only two out of seven types of personal freedom (freedom of association, assembly and civil society; freedom of expression and information). Interaction terms and more refined indicators of the political system reveal that countries without elections or with only one political party benefit more from judicial independence than both democracies and multi-party systems without free elections.
Funder
Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs Stiftelse
Johan och Jakob Söderbergs stiftelse
Czech Science Foundation
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Law,Economics and Econometrics,Business and International Management
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