conventional model and find negative union-productivity effects (Hirsch, 1991 and 2004). In the democracy-growth literature …, some argue that democracy is detrimental to growth (Huntington, 1968; Haggard, 1990), while others argue that it is …

international capital is at the root of the puzzle. Even though increasing globalisation was expected to eliminate the causes of …

international capital is at the root of the puzzle. Even though increasing globalisation was expected to eliminate the causes of …

democracy lends a great opportunity for testing whether fiscal decentralization is another effective institutional arrangement … democracy, the commonly believed majority rule “embodies no effective constraint on the exercise of government powers at all … even when the democratic monitor fails. From this point of view, the absence of representative democracy in China offers …

Communism in Eastern Europe and, thirdly, the overarching acceptance of representative democracy as the dominant political … key characteristic of a democracy, Robert Dahl (1971) argued that such distinguishing feature could be the continuing …

democracy lends a great opportunity for testing whether fiscal decentralization is another effective institutional arrangement … democracy, the commonly believed majority rule “embodies no effective constraint on the exercise of government powers at all … even when the democratic monitor fails. From this point of view, the absence of representative democracy in China offers …

addition to being sound economic policy, eliminating the Social Security earnings limit I think is a matter of fairness. Social …