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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
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Workers of the world, unite! Franchise extensions and the threat of revolution in Europe, 1820-1938
Aidt, Toke S.; Jensen, Peter S. - 2011
This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of revolution in a given country by revolutionary events...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274968
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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke S.; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
probability of a transition from autocracy to democracy and reduces the probability of democratic survival. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288466
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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - 2004
liberalizations correspond to the event of becoming a democracy. Using a difference-indifference estimation, we ask what are the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261237
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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