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Is State Building the Road to World Order?
Garzarelli, Giampaolo; Thomassen, Bjørn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We summarize Francis Fukuyama’s State Building: Governance and World Order in the Twenty-first Century (London, Profile Books, 2005)and explore the limits of its arguments. State Building is a book with a very wide scope that essentially tries to “ground” and expand the fields of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623418
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Bangladesh’s Democractic Challenge
Quibria, M.G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
-party democracy—these are the obvious first steps for a procedural democracy . They will extinguish the immediate fire, but do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240425
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An Anarchist's reflection on the political economy of everyday life
Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
James Scott has written a detailed ethnography on the lives of the peoples of upland Southeast Asia who choose to escape oppressive government by living at the edge of their civilization. To the political economist the fascinating story told by Scott provides useful narratives in need of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223358
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An anarchist’s reflection on the political economy of everyday life
Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
James Scott has written a detailed ethnography on the lives of the peoples of upland Southeast Asia who choose to escape oppressive government by living at the edge of their civilization. To the political economist the fascinating story told by Scott provides useful narratives in need of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283799
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Inefficient predation, information, and contagious institutional change
Dorsch, Michael; Maarek, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents an agency theory of revolutionary political transitions from autocracy to democracy. We model … under the threat of revolution, (ii) information shocks can catalyze democratic revolutions that may be contagious among … similar countries, and (iii) democracy can be consolidated following a political transition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112746
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Property rights and democratic values in Bronze Age and Archaic Greece
Kyriazis, Nicholas; Economou, Emmanouel; Marios; Lazaros - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
of democracy and institutions develop, in particular property rights, that foster economic development. We analyze this … for Bronze Age and Archaic Greece, as being the historical case where such a macroculture favorable to democracy and … proto-democratic values leading to the establishment of democracy as a political phenomenon in Classical Greece. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257718
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Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension
Knack, Stephen; Keefer, Philip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
sources on both democracy and inequality. When we substitute more commonly-used and higher-quality data sources for democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642712
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Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies
Clague, Christopher; Keefer, Philip; Knack, Stephen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
We present and test empirically a new theory of property and contract rights. Any incentive an autocrat has to respect such rights comes from his interest in future tax collections and national income and increases with his planning horizon. We find a compelling empirical relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685583
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Institutional interactions and economic growth: The joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital
Justesen, Mogens K.; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We investigate the possible interaction effects that the extent of property rights protection and separation of powers in a political system have on economic growth. Using analysis of panel data from more than countries over the period 1970-2010 we find that the growth effects of property rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112508
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Institutions and Economic Growth: A Cross country Evidence
Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed; Ahmed, Qazi Masood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The role of institutions in promoting economic growth and development has generated considerable interest among researchers and practitioners in recent years. This paper explores the role of state institutions in promoting growth using a GMM econometric model. Specifically it attempted to test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567678