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This paper examines the impact of procedural justice and sanctions on police legitimacy in a middle-income context … concludes that, while sanctions deter repeated infractions, they can erode legitimacy if not applied respectfully, highlighting …
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This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...
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two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …
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This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …
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social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour …
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The literature on taxes and public finance generally focuses on revenues, an easily observable and generally available variable, as the observable measure of tax policy. Still, revenues depend on many determinants other than the political will and policy objectives of the government. It is...
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