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Negotiating Political Spaces: Social and Environmental Activism in the Chinese Countryside

Bondes, Maria - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

The proliferation of social organizations in China has engendered a lively debate about how to conceptualize these social forces. This paper argues that such a conceptualization should take into account the role that both the party?state and social actors attribute to social organizations. With...

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Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP’s Quest for Legitimacy

Bondes, Maria; Heep, Sandra - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012

In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely …) model of legitimacy, we contend that the ruling elites in authoritarian regimes propagate official frames in a continuous … in recent years reemphasized persuasion as a means of reproducing legitimacy. We then apply our theory in an analysis of …

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Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy

Magistretti, Giacomo; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 …

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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition : Learning from South Africa

Inman, Robert P. - 2008

We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under "democratic federalism" the constitution creates an annual policy game where the new majority and the elite...

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Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

Acemoglu, Daron - 2007

This paper revisits and critically reevaluates the widely-accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy. We argue that existing studies find support for this hypothesis because they fail to control for the presence of...

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The Growth Effect of Democracy : Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?

Persson, Torsten - 2007

We estimate the effect of political regime transitions on growth with semi-parametric methods, combining difference in differences with matching, that have not been used in macroeconomic settings. Our semi-parametric estimates suggest that previous parametric estimates may have seriously...

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Economic and Political Liberalizations

Giavazzi, Francesco - 2004

This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...

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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

Bentzen, Jeanet - 2015

We document that rules for leadership succession in ethnic societies that antedate the modern state predict contemporary political regimes; leadership selection by election in indigenous societies is associated with contemporary representative democracy. The basic association, however, is...

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Culture, Institutions and Democratization

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing potentially larger collective action problems, countries with an individualistic culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier...

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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality

Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

suggesting that inequality tends to increase after democratization when the economy has already undergone significant structural …

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