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Inequality and voting in fragile countries : evidence from Mozambique
Bove, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; … - 2024
economic inequality affects voting and other forms of political participation. This evidence is largely driven by advanced … initial theoretical predictions, we find evidence for a positive association between voter turnout and inequality in rural …. In line with prior theoretical expectations, we find a negative association between inequality and voting for the …
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Does the African middle class defend democracy? : evidence from Kenya
Cheeseman, Nic - 2014
Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic consolidation? This paper uses the case of Kenya to investigate the attitudes and behaviours of the middle class....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381387
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Racial bias and the validity of the Implicit Association Test
Lee, Daniel J. - 2016
Implicit associations and biases are carried without awareness of conscious direction. In this paper, I develop a model to study giving behaviours under conditions of implicit bias. I test this model by implementing a novel laboratory experiment - a Dictator Game with sorting to study both these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458261
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Politicians and their promises in an uncertain world : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India
Banerjee, Prasenjit; Iversen, Vegard; Mitra, Sandip; … - 2019
In emerging economies, pro-social policy outcomes may be prevented by bureaucratic inefficiency, capture by elected or non-elected office holders, or by other hurdles. For local citizens, uncertainty about the true cause of such failures often prevails. We study the pro-sociality of politicians'...
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Moral reputation and political selection in a decentralized democracy : theory and evidence from India
Banerjee, Prasenjit; Iversen, Vegard; Mitra, Sandip; … - 2020
What motivates individuals to become politicians? This is an important question in decentralized democracies, where local politicians play a key role in public goods provision. However, and in emerging economies, bureaucratic hurdles and administrative failures introduce uncertainty about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012173954
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Misuse of institutions : lessons from Transition
Poliščuk, Leonid - 2010
The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused, i.e., applied or resorted to for reasons which have little in common with their intended or anticipated purpose. In such incidences institutions become sources of private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662276
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Foreign aid and democratic development in Africa
Dietrich, Simone; Wright, Joseph G. - 2012
Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet systematic research on this topic typically focuses on how aid influences democratic transitions. This study investigates whether and how foreign aid affects the process of...
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Two steps forward, one step back : the limits of foreign aid on Malawi's democratic consolidation
Resnick, Danielle - 2012
conduct of elections and improved the technical capacity of parliamentarians. However, inconsistency across programme cycles …, the concentration of funding around elections, and a reluctance to support political parties hinders the size of democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009508594
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Corruption and the efficiency of capital investment in developing countries
O'Toole, Conor M.; Tarp, Finn - 2012
This paper considers the effect of corruption on the effciency of capital investment. Using firm-level level data from the World Bank enterprise surveys, covering 90 developing and transition economies, we consider whether the cost of informal bribe payments distorts the efficient allocation of...
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Foreign aid in dangerous places : the donors and Mali’s democracy
Van de Walle, Nicolas - 2012
Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the territory came under the military control of an Islamist secessionist movement, and a military coup deposed the democratically-elected government in the capital. Given the substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552202