Introduction -- Part I The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe -- Global Context and the Rise … of Europe. Iberia and the Atlantic -- Iberian Overseas Expansion and European trade networks -- Domestic Expansion in the …-1598): Problem or Solution? -- The Christalization of a Political Economy, c. 1580-1630 -- Conclusions Part II -- Part III Organizing …

democracy, sovereign wealth fund, higher education, the euro, the shadow economy, multinational companies, and economic power …Chapter 1: Introduction - European Comparative Economic Studies: Thirty Years After -- Part 1: Political Economy in … Comparative Studies -- Chapter 2: The political economy of socialism revisited -- Chapter 3: The development of thinking on the …

. We estimate that a switch from Democratic to Republican party, for an aid-receiving country with above-median reliance on …

-Free Intellectual Property -- New roles for Japanese companies at the knowledge-based economy -- Paradigm Shifts in the TFT-LCD Industry … depth the relevance of this concept for research on innovation systems. It examines text-mining software and analyzes patent … innovations in systems and management. Since the 1990s, when a network economy began to be established and technological know …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development …

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with …Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and …

This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and … preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is … strategy consists in relying on the specific situation of frontier-zones. We find that democracy enhances the support for …