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empirical analysis employs data on transitions to democracy from non-democracy to examine how aid and oil affect democratization …
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development and democracy. Low-income democracies are at least as conflict-prone as low-income non-democracies, but high …
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This paper develops a model of electoral targeting in multi-party systems. Seat-share maximizing parties can use policy transfers to win votes by 1) converting undecided voters, 2) mobilizing loyal supporters, or 3) lowering the turn-out of voters loyal to other parties. The model allows for the...
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The Bundestag elections of 2009 meant a crushing defeat for the German social democrats. Never before had a party faced losses at such a high percentage in post-war Germany. The paper argues that these losses were not incurred at the margin but at the core of the social democrats' traditional...
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distinguishes among cases based on the strength of local pro-democratic forces and of the international commitment to democracy … victorious liberal powers made almost no explicit effort to promote democracy in Germany. Instead, Germany's transition to … democracy in 1918-1919 reflected the weakening of Germany's authoritarian order through defeat in war and the contingent …
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a democracy and explore the theme of “reciprocal responsibility” between leaders and citizens …
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This paper examines the relationship between quality of democratic governance and the judicialization of public policy. It is an attempt to go beyond the conventional argument that the policy “losers” (those that cannot achieve their policy goals through the traditional policymaking venues)...
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