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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210083
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465503
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468036
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457549
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The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State
Giuliano, Paola - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459939
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The Democratic Transition
Murtin, Fabrice - 2011
Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461226
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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy
Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding; Hariri, Jacob Gerner; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457474
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Restrepo, Pascual; … - 2013
suggesting that inequality tends to increase after democratization when the economy has already undergone significant structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458917
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Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Yared, Pierre; … - 2007
explain diverging development paths within the former colonial world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465318
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938766