%0 Report
        %A Giuliano, Paola
%A Nunn, Nathan
        %T The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State
        %D 2013
        %8 2013 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7156
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7156
        %X We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development.
        %K democracy
%K local institutions
%K historical persistence