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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition : Learning from South Africa

Inman, Robert P. - 2010

We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under quot;democratic federalismquot; the constitution creates an annual policy game where the new majority and...

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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study

Edwards, Sebastian - 2014

We investigate whether the inclusion of social rights in political constitutions affects social performance. More specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational outcomes." We rely on data for 61 countries that...

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Pork for Policy : Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil

Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - 2021

The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 gave relatively strong powers to the President. We model and test Executive-Legislative relations in Brazil and demonstrate that Presidents have used pork as a political currency to exchange for votes on policy reforms. In particular Presidents Cardoso and Lula...

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The Guarantees of Freedom

La Porta, Rafael; Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; … - 2021

Hayek (1960) distinguishes the institutions of English freedom, which guarantee the independence of judges from political interference in the administration of justice, from those of American freedom, which allow judges to restrain law-making powers of the sovereign through constitutional...

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Employment Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Button, Patrick - 2019

We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic 13,516 resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor,...

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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding - 2015

We document that rules for leadership succession in ethnic societies that antedate the modern state predict contemporary political regimes; leadership selection by election in indigenous societies is associated with contemporary representative democracy. The basic association, however, is...

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The Social and Economic Impact of Native American Casinos

Evans, William N.; Topoleski, Julie H. - 2021

In the late 1980s, a series of legal rulings favorable to tribes and the subsequent passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 legalized gaming operations on reservations in many states. Today, there are over 310 gaming operations run by more than 200 of the nations' 556...

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Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"

Cai, Hongbin - 2014

Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's quot;Silicon Valley,quot; we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs) affect local entrepreneurship and Ramp;D activities upon entry. We find that Ramp;D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate entry of domestic firms into the same...

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Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways : Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico

Lybbert, Travis J. - 2016

Work in positive psychology decomposes hope into aspirations, agency, and pathways. Operating in the context of an economic model developed with this framework, we review the literature on hope from philosophy, theology, psychology, and its relationship to emerging work on aspirations in...

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The Monetary and Fiscal History of Bolivia, 1960–2017

Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2019

After the economic reforms that followed the National Revolution of the 1950s, Bolivia seemed positioned for sustained … and a fixed exchange rate policy during the 1970s led to a debt crisis that began in 1977. From 1977 to 1986, Bolivia lost … almost all the gains in GDP per capita that it had achieved since 1960. In 1986, Bolivia started to grow again, interrupted …

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