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capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks …Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the …
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capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks …Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … and 0.148cm for Czechs. Although transition paths differ across the two countries, the absolute height gap between Slovaks …
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This paper estimates the effects of the 1991 breakups of Czechoslovak state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on subsequent performance of the master enterprises and the spin-off units. The analysis is based on quarterly and annual data of Czechoslovak industrial enterprises. We estimate the performance...
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-democracies. Democratic transitions and higher levels of democracy trigger pressures to increase the competitive balance in football leagues … in two ways. First, the link between non-democracies and specific teams breaks when a country experiences a transition to … democracy. Second, the economic liberalization that takes place in transitions to democracy disperses resources and generates …
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Since the late 1980s, the Caucasus and Caspian littoral states have passed through a period of extreme turmoil. In addition to the economic costs of decentralizing and marketizing their economies and the political difficulties associated with constructing new political and institutional...
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Using data for post-communist economies (1989-2002), we examine the determinants of income inequality. We find a strong positive association between equality and tax collection but note that this relationship is significantly stronger under authoritarian regimes than under democracies. We also...
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The analysis of the post-communist transition phenomenon has usually encompassed two fundamental components: the …
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of the State in production and macroeconomic policies. It examines the institutional changes needed in the transition …
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, while the Communist Party has remained in complete control of political life and no transition towards democracy can even be … transition towards the models existing in the free-market western democracies. It argues that the empirical evidence suggests … clearly are not. At the same time, China has experienced a transition away from a command economy towards a market economy …
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uninterrupted civilian administration since 29 May1999, when a nascent democracy was inaugurated. Even at that, the risk of military …-depth analysis of the role(s) of the Military in democratic political transition in Nigeria. This study becomes imperative in the … of the Military vis-à-vis democratic transition and sustenance. …
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