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Why Does Democracy Need Education?
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shleifer, … - 2021
civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide …Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal … potential base of support but offers weak incentives to its defenders. Dictatorship provides stronger incentives to a narrower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246308
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Was Stalin Necessary for Russia's Economic Development?
Cheremukhin, Anton - 2013
This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076184
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Roots of Autocracy
Galor, Oded - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959389
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A Theory of Military Dictatorships
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
not sufficient, the military can take action against a nondemocratic regime in order to create its own dictatorship. A … more important consequence of the presence of a strong military is that once transition to democracy takes place, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759411
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The Dictator's Inner Circle
Francois, Patrick - 2014
We posit the problem of an autocrat who has to allocate access to the executive positions in his inner circle and define the career profile of his own insiders. Statically, granting access to an executive post to a more experienced subordinate increases political returns to the post, but is more...
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Highway to Hitler
Voigtländer, Nico - 2014
popular support, helping to entrench the Nazi dictatorship. Direct economic benefits such as declining unemployment near …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053480
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How Modern Dictators Survive : An Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism
Guriev, Sergei - 2015
We develop an informational theory of dictatorship. Dictators survive not because of their use of force or ideology but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023344
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Incumbency Advantage in Non-Democracies
Egorov, Georgy - 2014
In elections that take place in a less-than-perfect democracy, incumbency advantages are different from those in mature …
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Odious Debt
Kremer, Michael; Jayachandran, Seema - 2021
Some argue that sovereign debt incurred without the consent of the people and not for their benefit, such as that of apartheid South Africa, should be considered odious and not transferable to successor governments. We argue that an institution that truthfully announced whether regimes are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222974
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Choosing a Dictator : Bureaucracy and Welfare in Less Developed Polities
Rauch, James E. - 2021
Recent work in the sociology of economic development has emphasized the establishment of a professional government bureaucracy in place of political appointees as an important component of the institutional environment in which private enterprise can flourish. I focus on the role that internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212898