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democracy. To address the potential endogeneity of economic growth, we use variation in precipitation, temperatures, and … reduces the short-run likelihood of institutional change toward democracy. Output contractions due to adverse weather shocks …
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The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...
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Part I. Conceptual and Historical Perspectives of Decentralization and Local Governance -- Chapter 1. From Deconcentration to Devolution: Tracking the Historical Trajectory of Democratic Decentralization in Ghana -- Chapter 2. Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development...
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The literature on happiness shows that there are many factors that influence a person s happiness. Extending previous studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person s happiness. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the...
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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 …
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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 …
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– Electing an All-party Power-sharing Executive -- Chapter 5. “The People Have Voted… the [Expletives]!” – Comparing Electoral …
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-third of the century of transformation -- Chapter 7. Shortageflation 3.0: war economy - state socialism - pandemic crisis … of irreversible globalization. Based on comprehensive research and a wealth of experience from his own political … activities, the author offers an insightful analysis of the globalized economy and its political, cultural and ecological context …
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gebilligten Entwurf eines "Vertrages über die Europäische Union" sind auch die mit einem Europa der Regionen in Zusammenhang …
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Als "Pluspunkte" Sachsens hob Prof. Dr. Oppenländer die "Dichte der Wissenschafts- und beruflichen Bildungseinrichtungen", die "Verfügbarkeit qualifizierter Arbeitskräfte" sowie die "Zugriffsmöglichkeiten auf produktionsnahe Dienste" hervor. Zu den Schwachstellen gehörten noch die sog....
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