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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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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 …

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Market democracy, rising populism, and contemporary ordoliberalism

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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Satisfaction not guaranteed : institutions and satisfaction with democracy in Western Europe

Wagner, Alexander F.; Dufour, Mathias; Schneider, Friedrich - 2003

What determines citizens satisfaction with the constitution in operation ? We make two contributions towards an answer to this important policy question. First, we place stronger emphasis than existing studies on quantitative interpretations of the importance of different factors. We use...

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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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A banana republic? : trust in electoral institutions in Western democracies : evidence from a presidential election in Austria

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016

We examine the extent to which political scandals influence trust in electoral institutions in established Western democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in individual electoral districts (scandal districts)....

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Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy

Graeber, Daniel; Meister, Lorenz; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023

-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders notably increased satisfaction with democracy and shifted political support towards … centrist parties. Stay-at-home orders increased satisfaction with democracy most among individuals who had been exposed to the … restrictive state interventions. Moreover, we find suggestive evidence that satisfaction with democracy increases more among …

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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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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 …

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Should we care (more) about data aggregation? : evidence from the democracy-growth-nexus

Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2019

We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices … produces upward-biased OLS and 2SLS estimates. The results of an analysis of the effect of democracy on economic growth show …

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