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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092386
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Democracy and International Conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto - 2016
During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992613
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092229
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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 contributions. One is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between political institutions and economic efficiency by studying the endogenous interaction between the form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945109
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World Price Shocks, Income, and Democratization
Zissimos, Ben - 2021
of national income per capita and democracy may not be positively correlated. The model is also useful for understanding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315548
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136587
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124683
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098336
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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 …
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 of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963389