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Why is there no revolution in North-Korea? The political economy of revolution revisited
Apolte, Thomas - 2010
In this paper the political economy of revolutions is revisited, as it has been developed and applied in a number of publications by Acemoglu and Robinson. We criticize the fact that these authors abstract from collective-action problems and focus on inequality of income or wealth instead. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307191
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Why is there no revolution in North-Korea? : the political economy of revolution revisited
Apolte, Thomas - 2010
absence is crucial for explaining why revolutions sometimes occur and sometimes not. -- Credible Commitments ; Dictatorship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374793
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Why is there no revolution in North-Korea? The political economy of revolution revisited
Apolte, Thomas - Centrum für angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2010
In this paper the political economy of revolutions is revisited, as it has been developed and applied in a number of publications by Acemoglu and Robinson. We criticize the fact that these authors abstract from collective-action problems and focus on inequality of income or wealth instead. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369538
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Why is there no Revolution in North-Korea? The Political Economy of Revolution Revisited
Apolte, Thomas - Institut für Siedlungs- und Wohnungswesen, …
In this paper the political economy of revolutions is revisited, as it has been developed and applied in a number of publications by Acemoglu and Robinson. We criticize the fact that these authors abstract from collective-action problems and focus on inequality of income or wealth instead. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734053
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Democracy, dictatorship, and transformation : a proposal for a constitution-guided systematic change in formerly Soviet republics
Apolte, Thomas - In: Constitutional political economy 6 (1995) 1, pp. 5-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001184875
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Governance, Demokratie und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den ehemals sozialistischen Staaten
Apolte, Thomas; Peters, Heiko - 2009
democracy and a market economy with different speed and sequencing. The related political-economy issues gave rise to an ongoing … debate on the question as to whether the introduction of democracy in view of comprehensive economic reforms may better be … delayed. After some theoretical considerations around governance, democracy, and reforms an overview of empirical studies on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300891
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Governance, Demokratie und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den ehemals sozialistischen Staaten
Apolte, Thomas; Peters, Heiko - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2009
democracy and a market economy with different speed and sequencing. The related political-economy issues gave rise to an ongoing … debate on the question as to whether the introduction of democracy in view of comprehensive economic reforms may better be … delayed. After some theoretical considerations around governance, democracy, and reforms an overview of empirical studies on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462098
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Democracy and prosperity in two decades of transition
Apolte, Thomas - 2010
This paper revisits the relation between democracy, liberalization, and prosperity in transition countries, using a …-shaped relationship between political liberalization and growth is found, such that a rise in democracy levels promotes growth only under … initially low democracy levels. Furthermore, economic and political liberalization turn out to be positively related, but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307203
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Democracy and prosperity in two decades of transition
Apolte, Thomas - 2010
This paper revisits the relation between democracy, liberalization, and prosperity in transition countries, using a …-shaped relationship between political liberalization and growth is found, such that a rise in democracy levels promotes growth only under … initially low democracy levels. Furthermore, economic and political liberalization turn out to be positively related, but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374795
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Democracy and prosperity in two decades of transition
Apolte, Thomas - Centrum für angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2010
This paper revisits the relation between democracy, liberalization, and prosperity in transition countries, using a …-shaped relationship between political liberalization and growth is found, such that a rise in democracy levels promotes growth only under … initially low democracy levels. Furthermore, economic and political liberalization turn out to be positively related, but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369541