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Democracy and development : the devil in the details

Persson, Torsten (contributor); … - 2006

Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited … explain why presidential democracy leads to faster growth than parliamentary democracy. Third, it is important to distinguish … growth effect of democracy. …

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Investing in influence : how minority interests can prevail in a democracy

Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2021

How can the West's economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various levels of government leads to systematic deviations of policies from those desired by the majority. Implemented policies diverge from the majority position despite centripetal forces...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649786

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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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...

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The UN Goldstone Report and retraction : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

democracy score was some 55 percentage points less likely to vote in favor of the second of the two UN Goldstone resolutions and …

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Democracy and international conflict

Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 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...

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Democracy and growth : evidence of a new measurement

Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2015

We present a novel approach for measuring democracy based on Support Vector Machines, a mathematical algorithm for … pattern recognition. The Support Vector Machines Democracy Index (SVMDI) is continuously on the 0-1-interval and enables a … very detailed measurement of democracy for 188 countries between 1981 and 2011. Application of the SVMDI highlights a …

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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015

This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...

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Democratic redistribution and rule of the majority

Corneo, Giacomo; Neher, Frank - 2014

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461269

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