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Does Direct Democracy Reduce the Size of Government? New Evidence from Historical Data, 1890-2000

Funk, Patricia - 2009

democracy has a constraining, but modest effect on spending. Our estimates suggest that a mandatory budget referendum reduces …Using a new dataset of Swiss cantons from 1890 to 2000, we estimate the causal effect of direct democracy on government … spending by 2.2 percent. We find no evidence that direct democracy at the canton level results in higher local spending or a …

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'Now that You Mention It' : A Survey Experiment on Information, Salience and Online Privacy

Marreiros, Helia - 2016

Personal data lie at the forefront of different business models and constitute the main source of revenue of several online companies. In many cases, consumers have incomplete information about the digital transactions of their data. This paper investigates whether highlighting positive or...

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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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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...

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