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The Biological Standard of Living in the Two Germanies
Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2001
Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in thetwo Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectionalsample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315135
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Democracy and development : the devil in the details
Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - 2006
Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited … explain why presidential democracy leads to faster growth than parliamentary democracy. Third, it is important to distinguish … growth effect of democracy. …
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Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate privately or act collectively
Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2010
We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong democracies when individuals can either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which...
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The impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption: Conditionality matters
Kalenborn, Christine; Lessmann, Christian - 2012
This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288233
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The Epistemic Vices of Democracies in the Age of Populism
Bonatti, Luigi - 2023
-economic one. As has been noted, reflections on these points induce to revise the picture of democracy as a regime producing … democracy as human rationality in pursuit of the common good, which serves to provide cover for those who profit from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346248
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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826060
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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019
in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892099
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Future European Alliance - Europe as a Flexible Democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2019
A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892304
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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature
Batinti, Alberto - 2019
new instrument for democracy and the extension of the franchise, the effect of decolonisation on democracy in the … colonising country’s democratisation to identify the causal effect of democracy on heights. We find robust evidence of a link … between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866876
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Gallup Democracy in Exercising the NATO Membership Option : The Cases of Finland and Sweden
Kanniainen, Vesa - 2022
their geopolitical state after Russia’s attack on Ukraine. It was the Gallup democracy, which launched the political moves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078678