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Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938
Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard; Jensen, Peter S. - 2021
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/10013316021
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Central Bank Boards Around the World : Why Does Membership Size Differ?
Berger, Helge - 2013
This paper analyzes empirically differences in the size of central bank boards across countries. Defining a board as the body that changes monetary instruments to achieve a specified target, we discuss the possible determinants of a board's size. The empirical relevance of these factors is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754018
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Central Bank Boards around the World: Why does Membership Size Differ?
Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker; Lybek, Tonny - CESifo - 2007
This paper analyzes empirically differences in the size of central bank boards across countries. Defining a board as the body that changes monetary instruments to achieve a specified target, we discuss the possible determinants of a board’s size. The empirical relevance of these factors is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181616
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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012
Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104253
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European Identity and Redistributive Preferences
Costa-Font, Joan - 2015
Europe. We draw upon data from the last three decades of waves of the European Values Survey and we examine the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019851
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Does Political Knowledge Increase Support for Europe? A Cross Country Investigation of the Attitudes of European Citizens
Cerniglia, Floriana; Pagani, Laura - 2021
We study the impact of political knowledge on the attitudes of European citizens towards the possible distribution of responsibilities between European level institutions and national governments in three policy areas: foreign policy, defence and immigration policy. The hypothesis tested is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316058
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The Golden Hello and Political Transitions
Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2012
We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version of Acemoglu and Robinson's (American Economic Review 91, 2001) model of political transitions to show how the anticipation of new loans from in-ternational financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099239
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Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy
Liu, Xuepeng - 2013
of regionalism and of worldwide democratization since the late 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086606
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A Lipsetian Theory of Democratization : Development, Education, Inequality, and Resources
Boucekkine, Raouf - 2017
The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative … relationship between inequality and democratization. Furthermore, we obtain new insights on the resources-curse hypothesis and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963389
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy : Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2013
Communist government in Europe. Our results are suggestive of information transmission and cultural diffusion channels … was directed both to more democratic Western Europe and to less democratic Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075980