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the effect of democracy on growth, was colonialism economically bad for colonies, does protectionism affect growth … country’s income goes up. (Overall level of democracy in the world however has no effect on growth.) The effect of colonialism …The paper uses the recently available data on growth rates, democracy, protectionism, and wars over the period 1820 to …
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The article features a temporal approach to modelling the social impact of Western colonialism. We collect a data set … scramble for Africa. When we broaden the analysis, it is shown that the positive effect of colonial duration on democracy is … that a long history of statehood is bad for democracy while there is almost no effect of the national identity of the …
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political institutions (Democracy) and economic institutions (Rule of Law). One of the main findings of this paper is that the …
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Veto player theory argues that a higher number of veto players lowers the likelihood of change; in turn, policies that do not change help to sustain commitments but may prevent adaptation to changing circumstances. This paper challenges that claim of veto player theory by arguing that policy...
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This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/366.pdf].
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Seminar on Indigenous Development: Poverty, Democracy and Sustainability, organized on the occasion of the First General …
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cover four major areas: democracy, markets, public sector management and rule of law, as well as a number of key …
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