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This paper explores why former British plantation colonies have relatively high levels of democracy through an analysis …
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Are politicians held accountable for bad governance? Using a unique panel data set on late budgets in US state governments, we investigate whether voters react to bad fiscal governance by penalizing political actors involved in the budgetary process at election day. We find that legislatures...
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The current economic crisis has hit all European countries hard, but some are much more severely affected others. The problems manifest in European peripheral countries, especially Ireland, Spain, and Greece, have roots in domestic policy mistakes. However, the European context of these policy...
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Motivating subnational politicians to provide social welfare is an important issue for developing and transition economies that lack democratic accountability. Based on quantitative data and in-depth case study on China, I find that there is a mechanism of top-down accountability in...
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bureaucracy quality on the risk of civil war in different institutional settings. In autocratic regimes governments cannot rely on … variables, we find that high bureaucracy quality is indeed strongly associated with civil peace in autocratic regimes. These …
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The paper presents a critical assessment of the conception of democracy in regimes that have formerly passed through … democratization process and the new role played by military and police.The literature on Democracy assert that must regimes in Latin … America have returned or built a new democracy, notwithstanding the fact that Rule of Law is still not implemented. The main …
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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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