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Party age and party color : new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality
Keefer, Philip; Milanović, Branko - 2014
This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290253
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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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Fiscal decentralization and government size : the role of democracy
Qiao, Mo; Ding, Siying; Liu, Yongzheng - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011965090
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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007
two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265602
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The response speed of the International Monetary Fund
Mody, Ashoka; Saravia, Diego - 2013
The more severe a financial crisis, the greater has been the likelihood of its management under an IMF-supported programme and the shorter the time from crisis onset to programme initiation. Political links to the United States have increased programme likelihood but have prompted faster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009768011
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Does democracy reduce terrorism in developing nations?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Younas, Javed - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833704
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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
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Social democracy and distributive conflict in the UK : 1950 - 2010
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Mohun, Simon; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013
social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753328
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Trade liberalization, democratization and technology adoption
Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383316
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Democracy does not cause growth : the importance of endogeneity arguments
Ruiz Pozuelo, Julia; Slipowitz, Amy; Vuletin, Guillermo - 2016
This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a worldwide survey of 165 country-specific democracy experts conducted for … these more exogenous democratizations strongly indicates that democracy does not cause growth. Consequently, the common …
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