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Economic nationalism and economic integration : the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century
Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009
nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266002
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The Interplay of Economic, Social and Political Fragmentation
Bosworth, Steven - 2019
This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to social fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible social identities and values), which generate political fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859600
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Stigma or Cushion? IMF Programs and Sovereign Creditworthiness
Gehring, Kai - 2018
IMF programs are often considered to carry a “stigma” that triggers adverse market reactions. We show that such a negative IMF effect disappears when accounting for endogenous selection into programs. To proxy for a country's access to financial markets, we use credit ratings and investor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920590
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274898
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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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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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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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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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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