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The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
that a jus sanguinis origin is a factor of resistance to change, that a high degree of democracy promotes the adoption of … jus soli elements while the instability of state borders associated with decolonization impedes it, and that cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763607
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The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
that a jus sanguinis origin is a factor of resistance to change, that a high degree of democracy promotes the adoption of … jus soli elements while the instability of state borders associated with decolonization impedes it, and that cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792114
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Citizenship Laws and International Migration in Historical Perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
establishment of democracy, the welfare burden, cultural factors and colonial history. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114217
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The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
evaluate separately the impact of political institutions linked to democracy and suffrage and of those institutions more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124196
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The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
evaluate separately the impact of political institutions linked to democracy and suffrage and of those institutions more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762361
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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Can international migration promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability? In order to examine this question, we designed a behavioral measure of the population’s desire for better governance. A postcard was distributed to households with the pledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854468
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THE NIGERIAN WARS, REGIONAL CRISES AND ETHNIC DISTURBANCES:POLICY RESPONSES AND DEMOCRATIC IMPLICATIONS
Nwaobi, PROF Godwin Chukwudum - Quantitative Economic Research Bureau (Quanterb) - 2009
Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard (First Governor General) amalgamated the two British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown Colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for amalgamation was economic rather then political. It is therefore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005006788
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The ‘four economic freedoms’ and life quality. General tendencies and some hard lessons for EU-27-Europe.
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
For many years, EU-27-Europe’s political-economic strategy was characterized by an intensive opening to the forces of globalization and the realization of the ‘four freedoms’ of goods, capital, labour and services on the EU-27-European ‘internal market’. The present article is a 175...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294674
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Investment and Expropriation under Oligarchy and Democracy in a Heckscher-Ohlin World
Albornoz, Facundo; Galiani, Sebastian; Heymann, Daniel - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2008
We study the incentives to expropriate foreign capital under democracy and obligarchy. We model a two-sector small open …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357542
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Democrazia e sviluppo: una relazione complessa
Lenti, Renata Targetti - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali (2009) 2, pp. 273-306
This paper explores the links between the level of per capita income, growth and democracy, a central issue in the … opposite hypothesis, according to which it is democracy that promotes growth and economic development. The theoretical … section explores the positive impact of democracy on human development, i.e. development considered as a multidimensional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786858