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Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2024

Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by phenomena like globalization and digitization producing winners and losers in economic terms. Growing feelings of alienation from the market-democratic system and the perceived...

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Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia's break up

Costa-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - 2014

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …

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Courts in a transition economy : case disposition and the quantity-quality tradeoff in Bulgaria

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Slavov, Atanas - 2015

. We draw on a new court-level panel dataset from Bulgaria to study the determinants of court case disposition and to …

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What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China

Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018

agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to …

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The rise of capitalism and the roots of Anti-American terrorism

Krieger, Tim; Meierieks, Daniel - 2014

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...

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Democracy and income in-equality : an empirical analysis

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Milanović, Branko; Ying, Yvonne - 2001

While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality, empirical literature has failed to uncover any such robust relationship. Here we take yet another look at this issue arguing first, that prevailing ideology may be an important...

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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?

Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001

thus supports the notion that there is a positive relationship between democracy and economic growth. …

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Double diversification with an application to Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Wijkman, Per Magnus - 2015 - Final version, 27 May 2015

Excessive concentration increases national risk in an uncertain world. This paper views economic and political diversification as an essential aspect of national risk management aimed at promoting efficiency, growth, and welfare. The paper first presents economic and political diversification...

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The democratic window of opportunity : evidence from riots in sub-Saharan Africa

Aidt, Toke; Leon, Gabriel - 2014

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

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Digital tools and the derailment of Iceland's new constitution

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Meuwese, Anne - 2016

constitutional bill are impossible to establish, an analysis of the Icelandic constitution-writing efforts as 'digital democracy …

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