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Political Capitalism : The Interaction between Income Inequality, Economic Freedom and Democracy

Krieger, Tim - 2016

democracy, where a powerful economic elite cooperates with politicians and bureaucrats for their mutual benefit …

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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L. - 2016

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...

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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021

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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Why Does Environmental Policy in Representative Democracies Tend to Be Inadequate? A Preliminary Public Choice Analysis

Kollmann, Andrea - 2010

There is a widespread consensus among the most important players in developed countries (voters, politicians, producers, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based...

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Tullock Challenges : Happiness, Revolutions and Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical “Tullock Challenges." The first relates to method: The measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...

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How to Tame Two Leviathans? - Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure

Galletta, Sergio - 2012

We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub … of direct democracy. This allows us to take into account vertical differences between institutions, i.e. we can … distinguish the effect of state direct democracy on local expenditures for municipalities with and without own direct democratic …

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Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy

Liu, Xuepeng - 2013

We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy …

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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth

Arezki, Rabah - 2013

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...

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Resource Rents, Democracy and Corruption : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arezki, Rabah - 2013

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …

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Food Prices and Political Instability

Arezki, Rabah - 2013

We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict …

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