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The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
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accurate test. The results indicate that equality holds strongly for the most developed country in the sample (Zimbabwe), but … not at all for the least developed country (Tanzania). Moreover, the breakdown in correct remuneration in the two least …
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The connections between globalization and democracy are a classic question in international political economy and a … positive relationships running both ways between globalization and democracy, though exceptions obtain at particular times …
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We show that armed actors refrain from using their power to arbitrarily steal from an economy if, and only if, the armed actors' property rights over stealing from that economy are secure. By 2009, armed actors taxed, administered, and protected various villages in Democratic Republic of the...
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development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …
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We use more than one century of Argentine and Mexican data to estimate the structural parameters of a small-open-economy real-business-cycle model driven by nonstationary productivity shocks. We find that the RBC model does a poor job at explaining business cycles in emerging countries. We then...
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Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania …, Tanzania receives very few tourists and revenues from tourism. To explore the determinants of this performance, I conduct an … that hotels in the safari area in Tanzania are more expensive than comparable hotels, and that this difference in price …
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provide evidence at the levels of individual countries and the world--helps explain why democracy advances in waves followed … to leap to a higher level of democracy when they are eventually overthrown …
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Growth and democracy (subjective indexes of political freedom) are analyzed for a panel of about 100 countries from …, the overall effect of democracy on growth is weakly negative. There is a suggestion of a nonlinear relationship in which … democracy enhances growth at low levels of political freedom but depresses growth when a moderate level of freedom has already …
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's global share of GDP means that liberal Asian nations will be poised to take up the role of promoting liberal democracy …
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