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The Great Divergence Revisited : Industrialization, Inequality and Political Conflict in the Unified Growth Model

Veselov, Dmitriy - 2016

This paper studies the impact of inequality in capital and land distribution on the pace of industrialization, thereby explaining the role of wealth inequality in the Great Divergence phenomenon. We build a two-sector unified growth model, in which the outcome of public policy contest between...

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Contemporary Developments in Russia’s Federal and Local Elections : On the Way to a Cohesive Party System?

Turovsky, Rostislav - 2019

differences using the notion of the party system nationalization, which is measured by comparing turnout and voting for political …

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Crony Capitalism as An Electoral Outcome

Veselov, Dmitriy - 2019

type of institutions. This paper develops a simple voting model with heterogeneous agents, which differ in their skills and … redistribution, preferred by the least skilled agents. We compare the possibility of this outcome for different voting rules, and …

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The Institutionalization of the Party System in Russia : Opportunities and Threats at the Elections of Governors

Guyvoronskiy, Yuriy - 2014

Does the level of party system institutionalization influence high-level incumbents' electoral support within subnational authoritarianism? Is it possible to ensure incumbent electoral success only with manipulative electoral practices? To what extent does this and other factors contribute to...

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Managed Competition and Voting Stability : Evidence from Russian Legislative Elections (2003-2011)

Sirotkina, Elena - 2014

Does limited competition promote voting stability and party system institutionalization? Since Russian political … test whether limited competition in non-democratic Russia leads to voting stability and party system institutionalization …

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Manipulated Voters in Competitive Election Campaigns

Aköz, Kemal Kıvanç - 2015

We provide a game-theoretical model of manipulative election campaigns with two political candidates and a continuum of Bayesian voters. Voters are uncertain about candidate positions, which are exogenously given and lie on a unidimensional policy space. Candidates take unobservable, costly...

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Public Trust in Internet Voting Systems : Evidence from Russian Public Opinion

Babayan, Valeria; Marques, Israel; Mironyuk, Mikhail; … - 2021

What are the determinants of individual-level trust in Internet-based voting in non-democracies? Modern digital and … electronic transformations of the electoral process offer citizens new forms of voting, however it is not clear which citizens … are prepared to trust these innovations. Existing work on trust in internet-based voting has mainly focused on Western …

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Systemic Opposition at Russia’s Gubernatorial Elections

Turovsky, Rostislav - 2015

This study is based on descriptive analysis of systemic opposition in Russia and its regions. We focus on the procedure and results of gubernatorial elections held in 2012-2015 in 62 regions (twice in two of them). The author has analyzed statistical information on electoral participation and...

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International Trade And Democracy : How Trade Partners Affect Regime Change And Persistence

Pronin, Pavel - 2020

This paper explores how international trade flows contribute to democracy and shows that countries' trade partners define the nature of this relationship: higher volumes of trade with democracies are conducive to democracy, while higher trade levels with autocracies undermine it. Moreover, the...

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Buying Loyalty of Voters Or Local Elites? Political Alignment and Transfers to Provinces in Tutelary Regimes : The Case of Iran

Vaskin, Ilya - 2020

provincial elites, while long-term transfers do not show political connection with voting patterns. The results also allow for …

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