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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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Resource rents, democracy and corruption : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011
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/10009301201
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Democracy with group identity
Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015 - 25 March-2015 final
Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has … therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role … or replacement of local government because of disfunctionality. Our general contribution is to show how democracy can …
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Gallup democracy in exercising the NATO membership option : the cases of Finland and Sweden
Kanniainen, Vesa - 2022
their geopolitical state after Russia's attack on Ukraine. It was the Gallup democracy, which launched the political moves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337349
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Terror per capita
Jetter, Michael; Stadelmann, David - 2017
terror per capita. Democracy, previously associated with more casualties, emerges as a marginally negative predictor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602738
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The impact of US trade sanctions on the global trade of target countries : do the political institutions of the targets matter?
Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2024
stronger political institutions, as measured by democracy indicators, manage to alleviate some of the adverse effects of US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464169
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The democracy dividend : how early exposure to democracy shapes health outcomes
Maggio, Federico; Rohner, Dominic; Saia, Alessandro - 2024
cumulative childhood exposure to democracy shapes adult health outcomes. It is found that growing up in bad regimes lastingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052554
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The political costs of oil price shocks
Arezki, Rabah; Djankov, Simeon; Nguyen, Ha; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022
We explore the effect of oil import price shocks on political outcomes using a worldwide dataset on elections of chief executives. Oil import price shocks cause a reduction in the odds of reelection of incumbents, an increase in media chatter about fuel prices, and an increase in non-violent...
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The rise of the "no party" in England
Aidt, Toke; Rauh, Christopher - 2019
We document a remarkable increase over the past two and a half decades in the fraction of people in England feeling close to no party - the rise of the "no party" - which, today, is close to constituting an absolute majority. We develop a new method to distinguish between age, period, and cohort...
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676