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Schauer, Frederick - 2009

For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and other litigation has functioned as an alternative form of regulation, the debate asks whether policy-making or regulation by litigation is more or less socially...

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Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association

Levy, Jacob T. - 2015

part in the democratization of organizational tools that had previously been open only to members of the elite, such as the …

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Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan

Berman, Eli - 2014

interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of …

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Voting for Democracy : Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation

Kaplan, Ethan - 2019

argue that the plebiscite contributed to the emergence of one party rule the twenty years following democratization …

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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development

Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public … interests of the two land classes, we find, based on 30-year panel data describing the democratization of Indian villages, that … democratization in villages with a larger landless population share shifted resources away from public irrigation, secondary schools …

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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition : Learning from South Africa

Inman, Robert P. - 2008

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 "democratic federalism" the constitution creates an annual policy game where the new majority and the elite...

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Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

Acemoglu, Daron - 2007

This paper revisits and critically reevaluates the widely-accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy. We argue that existing studies find support for this hypothesis because they fail to control for the presence of...

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The Growth Effect of Democracy : Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?

Persson, Torsten - 2007

We estimate the effect of political regime transitions on growth with semi-parametric methods, combining difference in differences with matching, that have not been used in macroeconomic settings. Our semi-parametric estimates suggest that previous parametric estimates may have seriously...

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Economic and Political Liberalizations

Giavazzi, Francesco - 2004

This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...

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Democratic Rulemaking

de Figueiredo, John M. - 2015

This paper examines to what extent agency rulemaking is democratic. It reviews theories of administrative rulemaking in light of two normative benchmarks: a "democratic" benchmark based on voter preferences, and a "republican" benchmark based on the preferences of elected representatives. It...

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