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War and endogenous democracy
Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international conflicts on domestic political institutions....
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Data is divisive: A history of public communications on e-commerce, 1998-2020
Aaronson, Susan Ariel; Struett, Thomas - 2020
For 22 years, the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been discussing how to govern e-commerce and the …
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Does conflict disrupt growth? Evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance
Polachek, Solomon W.; Sevastianova, Daria - 2010
variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …
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Violent conflict and inequality
Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010
focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
focus on World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS), and propose suggestions on how to improve questionnaires …
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Economic Costs of Mass Violent Conflicts: Final Report for the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, Switzerland
Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Drautzburg, Thorsten; … - 2008
COW and the UCDP/PRIO for conflicts and the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators for socioeconomic data …
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Primary Education: Barriers to Entry and Bottlenecks to Completion
Albert, Jose Ramon G.; David, Clarissa C. - 2012
To improve the country's standing on achieving the Millennium Development Goals on Education and Education for All targets, it is important to examine various economic and sociocultural demand-side factors that hinder children from attending and completing primary school, as well as maximizing...
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The Impact of Education on Crime: International Evidence
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lochner, Lance - In: CESifo DICE Report 10 (2012) 2, pp. 49-55
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A Paradox of Plenty? Rent Distribution and Political Stability in Oil States
Basedau, Matthias; Lacher, Wolfram - 2006
Resource curse theory claims that resource abundance encourages violent conflict. A study of 37 oil-producing developing countries, however, reveals that oil states with very high levels of oil revenue are remarkably stable. An analysis of the ways in which governments spend oil revenues...
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Electoral turnout and income redistribution by the state: A cross-national analysis of the developed democracies
Mahler, Vincent A. - 2006
This paper explores the sources of variation in state redistribution across 13 developed democracies over the 1979-2000 period, drawing upon data from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Luxembourg Income Study and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems....
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