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On judicial reform and corruption in developing and transition economies
Chong, Alberto; Cozzubo, Angelo - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215659
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Post-communist city on its way from grey to colourful : the case study from Slovakia
Bitusikova, Alexandra - 2003
up to the present: building new democracy in a new state) the study shows transformations of the city and urban life. The … demonstrates that diversity can grow and flourish only in democracy, which allows differences and pluralism leading to richer and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589680
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Transitional forces in a resource based economy : phases of economic and institutional development in Hawaii
Kaiser, Brooks A.; Roumasset, James Alan - 2014
We illuminate several important aspects of the nature and causes of growth and institutional change. To do this, we focus on the role resource pressures have played in the historic development of Hawaii's institutions. We discuss the Hawaiian story in the context of the natural co-evolution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350824
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The factors behind CO2 emission reduction in transition economies
Zugravu, Natalia; Millock, Katrin; Duchêne, Gérard - 2008
The Central and Eastern European countries significantly reduced their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions between 1995 and 2003. Was this emission reduction just the fortuitous result of the major economic transformation undergone by countries in the transition? Or is it rather a result of more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773051
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Central bank reform, liberalization and inflation in transition economies : an international perspective
Cukierman, Alex; Miller, Geoffrey P.; Neyaptı, Bilin - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001509599
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Adolescents' (un)happiness in transition
Coupé, Tom; Obrizan, Maksym - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011886553
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Can bottom-up institutional reform improve service delivery?
Molina, Ezequiel - 2014
This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286688
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The making of policy : institutionalized or not?
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009
This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247930
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An empirical contribution to the debate on corruption, democracy and environmental policy
Pellegrini, Lorenzo (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003356694
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Democracy, property rights, income equality, and corruption
Bin Dong; Torgler, Benno - 2011
This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008808082