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Scholars and policy makers believe that democracy will bring prosperity through integration into the global economy via … trade more. Second, democracy implies higher quality governance either through institutions or policy-making procedures. I …, importers and exporters. I find the theory that democracy, and many of its components, promotes international trade unconvincing …
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nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared with that of the …About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism …
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nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other …
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achievement trait (income). Individuals who are less likely to achieve are predicted to invest more value on nationalism and to …
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This paper explores the pre-First World War Austro-Hungarian economy as a prominent case where growing conflict between various ethnic and national groups within an empire might have contributed to the emergence of internal borders and even its eventual dissolution. To this end we adopt an...
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achievement trait (income). Individuals with lower cognitive ability are predicted to invest more value on nationalism and to have …
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Multiculturalism has taken a life of its own, swinging too far in one direction. The authors claim that the rapidly changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights should also apply to majority groups. They present...
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argument is that greater economic inequality prompts states to generate more nationalism as a diversion that discourages their … data on international conflict from the Correlates of War project. Only the diversionary theory of nationalism is supported …. This conclusion is an important contribution to our understanding of nationalism as well as of the effects of economic …
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postrevolutionary regime through economic performance, nationalism, ideology, culture, governance, and democracy. At the same time, the … wirtschaftliche Performanz, Nationalismus, Ideologie, Kultur, Governance und Demokratie als die wichtigsten Quellen zur … Wirtschaftswachstum und Nationalismus stützte, hin zu einem Ansatz, der Aspekte des ideologischen und institutionellen Wandels betont. …
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probability of a transition from autocracy to democracy and reduces the probability of democratic survival. …
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