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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …
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An ever wider gap in an ever closer union : rising inequalities and euroscepticism in 12 West European democracies, 1975-2009
Kuhn, Theresa; Elsas, Erika van; Hakhverdian, Armen; … - In: Socio-economic review 14 (2016) 1, pp. 27-45
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Populism and social polarization in European democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor; Perelman, Sergio; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257814
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Future European alliance : Europe as a flexible democracy
Frey, Bruno S.; Steuernagel, Armin; Friedrich, Jonas - 2018
A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919540
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'Whatever is, is right? : Economic institutions in pre-industrial Europe (Tawney lecture 2006)
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597971
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Digital television in Europe and Japan
Hart, Jeffrey A. - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000650421
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Falling fertility rates: new challenges to the European welfare state
Vos, Allison E. - In: Socio-economic review 7 (2009) 3, pp. 485-503
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Income and happiness across Europe : do reference values matter?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2007
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Macroeconomic interdependence and policy coordination between the U. S. and Europe : a game-theoretical approach
Asikoglu, Yaman - 1986
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Which conflicts can the European neighbourhood policy help resolve?
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Wijkman, Per Magnus - 2012
the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer … prosperity and detente. The EU has a strong motive in this, since conflicts in its neighbourhood spill-over into the EU itself …, strong intraregional trade, and the prospect of accession to the EU. It concludes that the EU's Member States must give …
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