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Is global competition for mobile capital harmful (less public goods) or beneficial (less government waste)? This paper combines both aspects within a generalized version of the comparative public finance model (Persson, Roland and Tabellini, 2000) by introducing multiple countries and endogenous...
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deepening in Turkish democracy under the prodding and the guidance of the European Union, and witnessed the waning of the …
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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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measure this democracy effect. We derive the distribution of the statistic of the democracy effect, and apply the new strategy … under democracy by weighting the behavior of each type of voter by its prevalence in the whole population (and not …. Application of this method to the data in Dal Bó, Foster and Putterman (2010) confirms the presence of the democracy effect in …
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This paper assesses if voting for democracy affects long-term electoral participation. We study the effects of … participating in Chile's 1988 plebiscite, which determined whether democracy would be reinstated after a 15-year long military …
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