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To date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state … wars. Six possible trajectories are mapped out: stable democracy, weak democracy, stable autocracy, fragmented rule … armed groups govern territories and civilians within them-that under certain circumstances may be harnessed in the post-war …
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We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain. We focus our review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime...
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studying the effects of elimination vis-à-vis survival of Polish elites during World War II. Our focus is on the Polish …
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Collecting public opinion data is challenging in the shadow of war. And yet accurate public opinion is crucial … challenges facing polling in war: under-coverage and response bias. We highlight these challenges in the context of the Russia …- Ukraine war, drawing on original panel survey data tracing the attitudes of the same people prior to and after Russia's full …
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Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science …
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Bangladesh and Pakistan had very divergent experiences with aid after 1971. Politics in Pakistan was less inclusive in terms of opportunities for intermediate class political entrepreneurs. In this context, the significant role of military aid to Pakistan had very negative effects on its...
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Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy … 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period of 1982-2012, we find strong evidence that democracy is positively …
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South Africa has seen a significant increase in the size of the black middle class in the post-apartheid period, but the attitudinal consequences of indicators of the middle class, as of 2011, are inconsistent and modest in size. While members of the middle class are no more likely to hold...
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find evidence of a mitigating role for 'constraints on executive power' and 'democracy'. Other covariates found to be …
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democratic governance. The analysis distinguishes between developmental aid and democracy aid, and examines democracy aid to …-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties … of Democracy project, employing a combination of a maximum likelihood estimation and structural equation modelling (ML …
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