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Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023

In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...

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Political salience and regime resilience

Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; Huck, Steffen; … - 2023

drastically escalate attacks. Our results speak to the charged debates about democracy, by identifying conditions under which … heightened interest in political decision-making can pose a threat to democracy in and of itself. …

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Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hufschmidt, Patrick - 2021

We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...

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Regional redistribution of mineral resource wealth in Africa

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - ZEW - 2021

We study the economic implications of mineral resource activity for non-mining regions at the grid-level across the African continent. We find that capital cities benefit from mineral resource activity anywhere in the country. Leaders’ birth regions also benefit, but only in autocratic...

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Democracy downsized : auditing the commercialised public sector

Muetzelfeldt, Michael - 1994

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The economic impact of universities : evidence from across the globe

Valero, Anna; Van Reenen, John - 2016

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Individual life horizon influences attitudes toward democracy

Lechler, Marie; Sunde, Uwe - 2019

Support for democracy in the population is considered critical for the emergence and stability of democracy. Macro …-determinants and retrospective experiences have been shown to affect the support for democracy at the individual level. We investigate … toward democracy. Combining information from period life tables with individual survey response data spanning more than 260 …

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Radio and the rise of the Nazis in prewar Germany

Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - 2015 - August 2013, revised April 2015

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a …

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The generation gap in direct democracy

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Mueller, Steffen Q. - 2018

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The politics of violence and populism in post-colonial democracy : the role of political society in South Africa

Koelble, Thomas A. - 2018

post-apartheid democracy. …

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