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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? Mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017
This paper starts with the observation that almost all military dictatorships that democratize become presidential democracies. I hypothesize that military interests are able to coordinate on status-preserving institutional change prior to democratization and therefore prefer political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917070
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries : The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050566
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Do Voters Dislike Liberalizing Reforms? New Evidence Using Data on Satisfaction with Democracy
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
reforms and even be less satisfied with democracy as such. We test this hypothesis empirically, using panel data from 30 … European countries in the period 1993–2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform …. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014116668
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Exit, voice and political change: Evidence from Swedish mass migration to the United States
Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2018
We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917113
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Ideological spillovers across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump's presidential election
Costa-Font, Joan; Ljunge, Martin - 2022
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual's core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the effect of the unexpected election of a United States (US) president (Donald Trump on the 9th of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330002
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Vox Populi, Vox Dei? Tacit Collusion in Politics
Johansson, Christian; Kärnä, Anders; Meriläinen, Jaakko - 2021
We study competition between political parties in repeated elections with probabilistic voting, allowing a multidimensional policy space and multiple political parties. This model entails multiple equilibria. When parties hold different opinions on some policy, they may take different policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615461
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Vox Populi, Vox Dei? Tacit Collusion in Politics
Johansson, Christian; Kärnä, Anders; Meriläinen, Jaakko - 2021
We study competition between political parties in repeated elections with probabilistic voting, allowing a multidimensional policy space and multiple political parties. This model entails multiple equilibria. When parties hold different opinions on some policy, they may take different policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220898
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Coups and economic crises
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2022
from both democracy and military dictatorship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542225
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504502
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Political Selection in China : The Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance
Jia, Ruixue - 2014
political system known for patronage can still select competent leaders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050582