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Democracy or videocracy? An econometric analysis of the role of television in the Italian political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025249
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Los católicos globales. El primer sondeo global del catolicismo mundial según el “World Values Survey” y el “European Social Survey”
Tausch, Arno; Ghymers, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
the resident Muslims; and also in Spain, Austria, United Kingdom and the Netherlands distrust in democracy is higher among … literature about the global rejection of democracy by religious denomination, religious practice and political orientation. Our … a country has a liberal Catholic environment, is committed to democracy, it is also clear that Catholic elitism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294601
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Democracy and trade: a gentle trade-off
Yucel, Mustafa Eray - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Regime characteristics and their evolution have always been of interest of several disciplines. The difficulties that arise in measuring regime characteristics have been resolved to a large extent during the past three decades. In that, the POLITY IV project has generated a valuable source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037755
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Dynamics of effort allocation and evolution of trust: an agent-based model
Hassani Mahmooei, Behrooz; Parris, Brett - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Trust is a dynamic and complex phenomenon and understanding the factors which affect its formation, evolution and … disappearance is a critical research issue. It has been shown that trust plays a key role in how human and social capital develop … dynamic effort allocation system, an evolving trust framework and a reputation module to study how changes in micro-level rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107434
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Political Budget Cycles Revisited, the Case for Social Capital
Kouvavas, Omiros - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Recent literature on Political Budget Cycles has provided appealing evidence that their existence is conditional to country specific characteristics. In this paper we hypothesize that the level of social capital prevailing in a country might be an underlying fundamental reason that might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113690
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Choosing Electoral Rules in the Presence of Corruption
Tavares, Samia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Corruption is a problem that has been shown to adversely affect a country’s development. Recent studies have shown that a country’s electoral system can affect its corruption level. But if that is the case, then electoral rules could be chosen to maximize opportunities for corruption. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837392
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Voting and Information Aggregation in Parliamentary and Semi-Presidential Democracies
Izmirlioglu, Yusuf - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper investigates legislation in parliamentary and semi-presidential democracies where the legislature and the president have formal role in legislation. A proposed law is first voted in the legislature and if it passes, comes to the consideration of the president. I study two prevalent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614988
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Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension
Knack, Stephen; Keefer, Philip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
sources on both democracy and inequality. When we substitute more commonly-used and higher-quality data sources for democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642712
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Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies
Clague, Christopher; Keefer, Philip; Knack, Stephen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
We present and test empirically a new theory of property and contract rights. Any incentive an autocrat has to respect such rights comes from his interest in future tax collections and national income and increases with his planning horizon. We find a compelling empirical relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685583
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Institutional interactions and economic growth: The joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital
Justesen, Mogens K.; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We investigate the possible interaction effects that the extent of property rights protection and separation of powers in a political system have on economic growth. Using analysis of panel data from more than countries over the period 1970-2010 we find that the growth effects of property rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112508