Russian Abstract: В работе предпринята попытка путем сравнительного анализа выборки старых демократий, а также описания набора эпизодов (включая и молодые демократии)...

Russian Abstract: В ряде работ (Aidt et al, 2006; Funk, Guthmann, 2006 и др.) показана связь между введением всеобщего избирательного права и ростом государственных расходов. Исторически...

Adam Smith pointed out public respect, prestige as significant component of compensation "for some employment" ("honorableness ... of employment"). We assumed, the public moral sanction on success (Weber), public demand for "self-made man" should correlate positively with number of businessmen...

The paper is focusing on incentives to marry and to give birth under modern institutions of "marital rape" and "actions in the best interest of the child". We suppose the civil bureaucrats and "leftist politicians (formally defined) are in strong demand of these institutions providing more...

The link between an introduction of the universal suffrage and the growth of government spending has been established in some literature (Meltzer, Richard, 1981, Aidt et al., 2006, Funk and Guthmann, 2006). In this article we try to identify a more detailed mechanism behind that link. So, we...