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1960 to 2010 and dynamic panel data analysis, we find a significant and negative relationship between income and democracy … exogenous and endogenous democracy. The former explains whether external factors, such as the end of the Cold War, as well as … Cold War has a significant influence on the democratisation process probably because of the pro-democracy policies …
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Following several decades during which violent civil conflict was common in African countries, the period from 1990 onwards was notably marked by a spreading and deepening of adherence to democratic principles. However, it is true to say that many African countries are still experiencing...
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democracy becomes acceptable and "the only game in town". For that we use a sample of all nine South American young democracies …
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We investigate in this paper what are the main determinants of government and external debt in South America. Our sample purposely includes all nine South American countries that re-democratised in the last thirty years or so, and the data cover the period 1970-2007. The results, based on...
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whether democracy needs development for its own consolidation. We use a sample of all nine countries that re-democratised in … that income, or development in general, plays a positive role in "sustaining" democracy. Moreover, the exogenous version of … relatively poorer and democracy a rather elusive concept in the region. We also test for the critical junctures hypothesis, or …
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generating high inflation and macroeconomic instability. All in all, we suggest that the implementation of democracy as such …
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In this paper I investigate whether democracy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has had any effect … Variables, eg the end of the cold war is one of the contemporaneous external sources of variation to democracy, to deal with … reverse causality in thin panels), suggest that democracy, and the better governance that tends to be associated with it, has …
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