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The Political Economy of Kazakhstan: A Case of Good Economics, Bad Politics?
Commander, Simon; Prieskienyte, Ruta - 2021
around the founder President, his family and associates. This is reflected in the economics of the autocracy whereby a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658133
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Constitutions and economic development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287652
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A theory of political entrenchment
Saint-Paul, Gilles; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2012
We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution with probabilistic voting. A partially self-interested left-wing party may implement (entrenchment) policies reducing the income of its own constituency, the lower class, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282469
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Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right: (Unexpected) Results from Austria
Steinmayr, Andreas - 2016
This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state elections in an Austrian state in September 2015 the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPOE)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479308
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Female Political Representation and Violence against Women: Evidence from Brazil
Delaporte, Magdalena; Pino, Francisco J. - 2022
This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351904
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Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences
Barone, Guglielmo; D'Ignazio, Alessio; De Blasio, Guido; … - 2014
We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right coalition, which has a political platform less favorable to immigrants. Additional findings are:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377259
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Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604106
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Ideology
Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763921
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Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences
Barone, Guglielmo; D'Ignazio, Alessio; de Blasio, Guido; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right coalition, which has a political platform less favorable to immigrants. Additional findings are:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781557
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War and endogenous democracy
Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
, conditionally on satisfactory performance as soldiers. When the elite cannot credibly commit to provide an incentive … allows the elite to make credible commitments of future income redistribution in favor of the citizens, while a limited … external threat makes optimal for the elite not making any (economic or political) concession to the masses. Some historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268686