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As Gandhi often pointed out, India lives in villages and unless village life can be revitalized the nation as a whole … can hardly come alive. When India became independent in 1947, perhaps one-third of the villages of India had traditional … government introduced Panchayati Raj system in India through the 73rd Constitutional Amendment in 1992. The article mainly …
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Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard(First Governor-General) amalgamated the two British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for almalgamation was economic rather than political. It is therefore,...
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democracy and industrial diversification. …
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Democracy resolves conflicts in difficult games like Prisoners’ Dilemma and Chicken by stabilizing their cooperative …
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current concern. But what about democracy? What about political regimes? Are they taken into account by private banks when …(er)s react positively (that is by increasing their lending) when an emerging democracy appears? Do we witness increased bank …
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The recent empirical growth literature has proposed three underlying fundamental determinants of economic growth, namely, physical geography, economic integration, and institutional quality. This paper unpacks the final determinant into both political-economic institutions as well as the...
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The theoretical discussion on globalization has suggested that there are linkages between democracy and trade, although … of whether democratic regimes influence trade policy, as opposed to the actual relationship between democracy and trade … of bilateral trade data for the period 1948-1999, while taking into account the role of democracy. It finds that …
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Corruption is a problem that has been shown to adversely affect a country’s development. Recent studies have shown that a country’s electoral system can affect its corruption level. But if that is the case, then electoral rules could be chosen to maximize opportunities for corruption. This...
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-party democracy—these are the obvious first steps for a procedural democracy . They will extinguish the immediate fire, but do not …
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holistic European Dimension that has to be institutionalized (Habermas 1996). Hence the lack of democracy. The progressive …
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