Similar Search Results

Divided We Survive? Multi-Level Governance and Policy Uncertainty During the First Wave of COVID-19

Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021

We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries, healthcare is managed at the regional level, but the central government behaved differently in the uncertainty surrounding the first wave, leaving more autonomy to regional...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233144

Political Stability and Economic Prosperity : Are Coups Bad for Growth?

Blum, Johannes - 2020

We provide evidence that political instability deteriorates economic growth. We establish this result based on panel difference-in-differences strategies and dynamic panel data models using a large sample of 180 countries, a novel geocoded dataset for 2,660 regions, and micro data for about...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832193

Divided They Fall. Fragmented Parliaments and Government Stability

Cipullo, Davide - 2020

This paper studies how political fragmentation affects government stability. We show that each additional party with representation in Parliament increases the probability that the incumbent government is unseated by 4 percentage points. Governments with more resources at their disposal for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837474

The Economics of Politically Connected Firms

Choi, Jay Pil; Thum, Marcel P. - 2021

Political connections between firms and autocratic regimes are not secret and often even publicly displayed in many developing economies. We argue that tying a firm's available rent to a regime's survival acts as a credible commitment forcing entrepreneurs to support the government and to exert...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317003

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. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261420

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

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

Authoritarian Leaders Share Conspiracy Theories to Attack Opponents, Promote In-Group Unity, Shift Blame, and Undermine Democratic Institutions

Ren, Zhiying (Bella); Carton, Andrew; Dimant, Eugen; … - 2022

Although many virtuous leaders are guided by the ideal of prioritizing the need and welfare of their subordinates, others advance their self-interest at the expense of the people they purport to serve. In this article, we discuss the relationship between leadership and the spread of conspiracy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076504

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

Chinese Aid and Democratic Values in Latin America

Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022

that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid, thus weakening democracy promotion. This study aims to deepen our … Survey, we use an instrumental variable approach to test the effect of Chinese aid on attitudes toward democracy in 18 Latin … democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081428