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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment

Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009

This paper explores the idea that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271861

The Violent and the Weak: When Dictators Care About Social Contracts

Kirstein, Roland; Voigt, Stefan - 2000

This paper explores the conditions under which compliance with a social contract establishes an equilibrium in a society. It is assumed that society consists of two groups, one of which has a comparative advantage in using violence, whereas the other one has a comparative advantage in producing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296956

The economic effects of constitutions: replicating - and extending - Persson and Tabellini

Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan; Wolf, Carsten - 2007

Persson and Tabellini (2003) show that presidential regimes and majoritarian election systems have important effects on fiscal policy, government effectiveness and productivity. Here, their dataset is extended in a number of ways: the number of countries included is increased from 85 to up to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264145

The economic effects of federalism and decentralization: a cross-country assessment

Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009

This paper is based on the conjecture that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by drawing on a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a pricipal component analysis, seven aspects of both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265878

Mapping constitutionally safeguarded judicial independence: A global survey

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2010

explicitly anchoring JI in the constitution: countries belonging to the common law tradition are less likely to implement JI in … whether JI is included in the constitution: societies experiencing a high level of religious fractionalization are not only … lower likelihood of JI being mentioned in the constitution. …

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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts: a cross-country analysis

Voigt, Stefan - 2008

Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...

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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts: a cross-country analysis

Voigt, Stefan - 2008

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The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2022

, whereas military dictatorships perform the worst. Although compliance is not determined by a constitution's breadth … the constitution achieve higher compliance levels. …

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The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

This article introduces a novel database that measures governments' compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290159

Economic Growth and Judicial Independence, a Dozen Years On: Cross-Country Evidence Using an Updated Set of Indicators

Voigt, Stefan; Gutmann, Jerg; Feld, Lars P. - 2014

Over 10 years ago, Feld and Voigt (2003) introduced the first indicator for objectively meas-uring the actual independence of the judiciary and demonstrated its utility in a large cross-section of countries. The indicator has been widely used, but also criticized. This paper pre-sents more...

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