ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY

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Democratization Under the Threat of Revolution: Evidence From the Great Reform Act of 1832 (2015, background): “For broader perspectives on democratization, see, e.g., Congleton (2011), Robinson (2006) and Ziblatt (2006, 2008).”
Inequality, Democracy, and Institutions: A Critical Review of Recent Research (2010, unknown): “This idea is formalized in Acemoglu and Robinson (2006), arguing that rich agents can offset changes in de jure political power (allocated by political institutions) with changes in de facto power.”
Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938 (2014, background): “The ‘threat of revolution hypothesis’suggests that the elite offers voting rights to avoid revolution (see, e.g., Acemoglu and Robinson, 2000, 2006).1 They do so whenever they perceive the risk to be suffi ciently real.”