This paper analyzes the impact of globalization on social spending in Latin America. It shows that trade integration …. By contrast, the change to democracy increases education and health spending, which reaches a larger segment of the …

in health, community, and justice services, as well as private industry (banking, housing, insurance) and government …

il doit apporter un éclairage strictement limité à sa technique afin que la décision de justice soit prise en toute … Justice. …

attainable. That is the reason why justice plays a major role in favouring collective action against global warming. In this … article I spell out the dominant notions of justice and the consequent criteria of equity for the main domains of global … factor which takes into account all undeserved inequalities, as suggested by Rawls’ theory of justice. With regard to the …

The paper contrasts Lipset’s modernization hypothesis and Przeworski- Limongi hypothesis that entries into democracy … are random with respect to income. We use data on income and democracy going back to 1820, multiple definitions of … democracy, and non-parametric testing focusing on the distribution of entrants’ incomes. We find that income matters for entry …

This paper proposes a “before-and-after” approach to empirical examination of the relationship between democracy and … evidence indicates that an improvement in growth performance typically follows the transformation to democracy. Moreover …, growth under democracy appears to be more stable than under authoritarian regimes. Interestingly, wealthy countries often …