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democracy and cognitive skill are negatively correlated to the top 1% income share. …
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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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"Political dynasty" refers to the situation wherein members of the same family are occupying elected positions either in sequence for the same position, or simultaneously across different positions. In the Philippines, political dynasties are prevalent in areas with more severe poverty. Two...
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Political dynasties—members of the same family occupying elected positions sequentially for the same position or simultaneously across different positions—have become a common feature in many developing countries with democratic political systems. In the Philippines, for instance, political...
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components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A … democracy that takes into account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a …
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, which focuses on how democracy, polity and autocracy affect financial development dynamics of depth, efficiency, activity … financial intermediary depth, activity and size. Democracy has important effects on the degree of competition for public offices …-law counterparts. (5) There is evidence of a U-shape relationship between national wealth and the level of democracy, with Low …
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they don’t understand democracy. In 1951 the mathematician Kenneth Arrow formulated his Impossibility Theorem in social … welfare theory and since then mathematicians have been damaging democracy. My book Voting Theory for Democracy (VTFD) tries to … save democracy and social welfare from such destruction. VTFD applies deontic logic to Arrow’s Theorem and shows that Arrow …
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Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem in social choice finds different interpretations. Bordes-Tideman (1991) and Tideman (2006) suggest that collective rationality would be an illusion and that practical voting procedures do not tend to require completeness or transitivity. Colignatus (1990 and 2011)...
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In this paper, we made an attempt to understand the costs and benefits of democracy for economic growth in Pakistan by … analyzing the relationship between democracy and its various measures. Using instrumental variables and RALS (rth … uncertain relationship between democracy and fiscal policy variables like expenditures, revenues and deficit; whereas democracy …
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explain why resource abundance may lead to instability of democracy in some countries, but does not create any difficulties … to corruption (a measure of the institutional quality). The probability of the democracy preservation is decreasing in …
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