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The respect for and protection of civil liberties are one of the fundamental roles of the state, and many consider civil liberties as sacred and "nontradable." Using cross-country representative surveys that cover 15 countries and over 370,000 respondents, we study whether and the extent to...
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Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice, it encompasses the right to move internally within a country, the right to move abroad, and the right to return from abroad. It does not include the right of an individual...
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With the continuing expansion of global economic integration, labor standards in developing countries have become a hot button issue. One result has been a proliferation of efforts to use the market to put pressure directly on multinational corporations to improve wages and working conditions in...
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most effective ones for processing and aggregating local knowledge. Democracy is a meta-institution for building good …
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and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic … and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are …
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democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 … integrated with democracies are, at the time of the survey, more supportive of democracy. In line with the change in citizens …' preferences, economic integration with democratic partners has a large, positive effect on a country's democracy score. Instead …
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Beyond its immediate impact on public health and the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has put democracy under stress …, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government performance may cause deeper dissatisfaction with democracy even …,500 respondents to examine the impact of the pandemic on public attitudes about incumbent governments, the functioning of democracy …
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government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …
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A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these...
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