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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy : Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2013
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and electoral outcomes in Moldova during the following...
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Aleatoric Democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized, as they seemingly do not guarantee that all parts of the population have an adequate voice in the established political process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly...
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A Theory of Trade Policy Under Dictatorship and Democratization
Zissimos, Ben - 2017
This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two …
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The Democratic Window of Opportunity : Evidence from Riots in Sub-Saharan Africa
Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2014
We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa, and that these changes are often a result of concessions made as a result of the riots. This provides evidence that low-intensity conflict can have a substantial short-run impact...
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Democratic Tipping Points
Ciccone, Antonio - 2018
democratization. I think of situations where this is a possibility as democratic tipping points. The transitory events I focus on are …
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World Price Shocks, Income, and Democratization
Zissimos, Ben - 2021
This paper shows how a world price shock can increase the likelihood that democratization must be used to resolve the … price shock can push the country into a situation where the elite face a commitment problem that only democratization can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315548
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How Free Trade Can Help Convert the 'Arab Spring' into Permanent Peace and Democracy
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2021
supporting the democratization process in the Barcelona countries and on negotiating deep and comprehensive free trade agreements … prospect of such closer integration provide sufficient economic benefits to encourage progress in democratization in key …
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