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healthy participatory democracy under such conditions meant keeping the voting public involved – and science popularisation …
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This paper analyzes whether political outcomes in local democracies are determinedby the preferences of the median -typically poor- agents or whether they reflect thewishes of the wealthy elites. A model shows that when politicians belonging to differentgroups can form coalitions, the wealthy...
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democracy to show thatdemocracies pick more highly educated leaders. The results are ro-bust to a wide range of speci ……cations, controls and ways of measuringeducation and democracy.[...] …
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This paper explores these issues further by reconsidering the link between democracy and health using panel data from a … cross-section of countries. The data show a strong (conditional) correlation between life expectancy and democracy. This …
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The theme of this year's WDR is how to structure institutions to bring about an effectively functioning market economy. There is no question that political institutions play a key role here. In most countries political institutions determine the rules of access to considerable discretionary...
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