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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,...

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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...

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Does Democracy Make Taller Men? Cross-Country European Evidence

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

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Does terror threaten human rights?: evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2007

The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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From Natural Resources to Human Rights

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019

Per Magnus Wijkman was the first foreign observer to urge Iceland in print to regulate its fisheries by price. This was in 1975, nine years before the Icelandic fishing quota system came into effect, a system judged discriminatory and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Iceland in 1998 (but...

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The UN Goldstone Report and Retraction: An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

democracy score was some 55 percentage points less likely to vote in favor of the second of the two UN Goldstone resolutions and …

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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 …

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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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