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Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan

Berman, Eli - 2014

interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of …

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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development

Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public … interests of the two land classes, we find, based on 30-year panel data describing the democratization of Indian villages, that … democratization in villages with a larger landless population share shifted resources away from public irrigation, secondary schools …

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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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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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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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A Theory of Minimalist Democracy

Bidner, Chris - 2014

A majority of the world democracies are far from the benchmark of representative democracy. This paper presents a model of political transitions based on a minimalist conception of the democratic state, i.e. a form of government solely characterized by competitive elections. We show that the...

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Equalizing Superstars : The Internet and the Democratization of Education

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

major impact of web-based educational technologies will be the democratization of education: educational resources will be …

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Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa

Inman, Robert P. - 2012

South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy stands as one of the past century's most important political events. The transition has been successful to this point because the new constitution adopted a form of federal governance that has been able to provide protection for the economic...

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Inclusion and Democratization Through Web3 and DeFi?$bInitial Evidence from the Ethereum Ecosystem

Cong, Lin William; Tang, Ke; Wang, Yanxin; Zhao, Xi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Web3 and DeFi are widely advocated as innovations for greater financial inclusion and democratization. We assemble the …

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