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Efficiency, Policy Selection, And Growth In Democracy And Autocracy: A Formal Dynamical Model

Akhremenko, Andrei S.; Petrov, Alexander - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

The main focus of this paper is the impact of efficiency losses, related to public capital stock, on the prospects of economic growth in democratic and autocratic political environments. We introduce a distinction between two types of efficiency loss: along with the loss of public capital during...

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The fate of social sciences in Soviet Russia: the case of Isaak Il’ich Rubin

Boldyrev, Ivan; Kragh, Martin - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

dictatorship. This paper attempts to show how a country with a relatively large and internationally established community of social …

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Endogenous Property Rights, Conflict Intensity And Inequality In Asymmetric Rent-Seeking Contest

Yarkin, Alexander M. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

Does less inequality in wealth distribution imply better property rights protection? In this paper we show that this impact is non monotonous and is conditional on a) equilibrium type: conflict (rent-seeking) or peace, b) the reasons of changes in wealth distribution, and c) the size of the...

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Redistribution and the political support of free entry policy in the Schumpeterian model with heterogenous agents

Veselov, Dmitry - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

We consider the problem of finding sufficient conditions for political support of liberal, growth-enhancing policy in a quality-ladders model with heterogeneous agents differing in their endowment of wealth and skills. The policy set is two-dimensional: Agents vote for the level of...

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KEY FEATURES OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THE NATIONAL CLUSTER PROGRAM IN RUSSIA

Kutsenko, Evgeniy; Meissner, Dirk - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for clusters helps to take into account regional peculiarities and engage the most innovative local actors into the process of innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster...

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Key features of the first phase of the national cluster program in Russia

Kutsenko, Evgeniy; Meissner, Dirk - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

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Institutions, ratings and economic growth: in search of reliable indicators

Menyashev, Rinat; Natkhov, Timur; Yanovskiy, Konstantin - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

The ratings of political institutions are well-known and widely used in academic literature. These ratings are mostly based on expert evaluations. However, such evaluations can be subjective and occasionally driven by ideological considerations. In this paper we propose two new indicators of...

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(Re-)Bulding the Ship of State at Sea? State Capacity and Regime Dynamics in Post-Communist Countries

Melville, Andrei; Stukal, Denis - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2012

complements). Several studies reveal a J-curve link connecting autocracy and democracy to levels of state capacity, implying that … cases stipulate changes in the level of democracy. Particular patterns of this relationship are discussed in the paper in …

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Factors of Post-Socialist Stateness

Ilyin, Mikhail; Khavenson, Tatiana; Meleshkina, Elena; … - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2012

Stateness is the capacity of the state to exercise its fundamental functions. The collapse of the socialist system prompted the former USSR countries to „re-invent? their stateness. The paper focuses on factors that impede or smooth stateness transformations in post-socialist countries. First,...

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The philosophy of sovereignty, human rights, And democracy in Russia

Antonov, Mikhail - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

This paper examines the correlation between the concepts of sovereignty, human rights, and democracy in Russian legal … Constitution contains many declaratory statements about human rights and democracy, but their formulations are vague and have … 2006 to their amalgamation into the concept of “sovereign democracy.” This concept is considered in this paper to be a …

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