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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy : lessons from youth enfranchisement

Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020

Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous … democracy proxied by the strength of direct democratic institutions and (ii) the size of the new electorate. Our results provide … democracy and affects citizens' willingness to lower the voting age. Moreover, we find systematic price reactions of present …

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Autocracies and development in a global economy : a tale of two elites

Akerman, Anders; Seim, Anna Larsson; Naghavi, Alireza - 2011

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have done remarkably well, others such as the Latin American...

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Oil revenues, ethnic fragmentation and political transition of authoritarian regimes

Cologni, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2012

Natural resources are generally associated to negative effects on the political environment of a country. This paper explores the impact that oil revenues have on the establishment of a given political system. Based on previous literature, a political economy perspective is employed. A simple...

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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying

Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016

Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...

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A model of tournament incentives with corruption

Wang, Bin; Zheng, Yu - 2018

We provide a theory of how growth, corruption, and a low-powered public-sector pay scale coexist in a stable …

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Great expectations : a tale of two transitions

Girardi, Daniele; Veneziani, Roberto; Wengle, Susanne - 2023

Over a quarter of the world's population lives in economies that have undertaken transitions from central planning to market economies. These transitions entail far-reaching and complex changes in social, economic and political institutions and have had widely divergent outcomes. Important...

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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 …

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What does it take to sell environmental policy? : an empirical analysis of referendum data

Halbheer, Daniel (contributor); Niggli, Sarah (contributor); … - 2003 - June 2003, revised April 2005

-votes do not seem to depend on whether a proposal involves a tax or not. -- direct democracy ; environmental policy ; public …

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Higher education and mortality : legacies of an authoritarian college contraction

González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; … - 2023 - This version: September 2023

We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in college openings introduced by the Pinochet regime after the 1973 coup in Chile, which led to a sharp downward kink in college enrollment among those cohorts reaching...

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State capacity and the quality of policies : revisiting the relationship between openness and the size of government

Chuaire, María Franco; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2014

The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper argues that there are a number of policies that can mitigate trade-induced risks, many of which do...

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