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it. Moreover, this paper shows that the bureaucratic elite obtains excessive bureaucratic power, and that promiscuous …This paper analyzes the interconnection between elites and its effects on economic growth. For decades, the … bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has …
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evolution and profile of political dynasties, study the self-perpetuation of political elites, and analyze the connection … differences and similarities in the profile and political careers of dynastic politicians relative to the rest of legislators. We … later. Using instrumental variables methods, we establish that this relationship is causal: a longer period in power …
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Using a novel biographical database including all Presidents and presidential candidates in Colombia for the period 1833-2010 I show that the value of a political connection can be quantified in terms of the votes transferred within a political network. I consider three types of political...
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Die ehemalige konservative Oppositionsführerin Park Geun-hye (2004-2006) gilt als aussichtsreiche Kandidatin für die kommenden Präsidentschaftswahlen im Dezember 2007. Die Tochter des so genannten Entwicklungsdiktators Park Chung-hee, der während seines Regimes (1961-1979) den...
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. Based on this understanding, this paper analyses the role of elites in policy processes, focusing on elite formation and … that the dominant analyses of the role of the elites in the policy process in Mozambique overlook the process of elite …Discussion of development strategies in Mozambique reveals three main perspectives on the role of elites in the policy …
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sample. Furthermore, the report provides a first overview on the demographic composition of German elites. …
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incumbent elite is a negative function of the distance to the free world. In consequence, there are conflicting effects of … geography on political power shifting. The paper provides a rationale for the counterintuitive fact that the first authoritarian …
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Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
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Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269775
An elite derives its status from its relationship to property, whether physical or human capital. While stable property … have a positive impact on economic development when a country's elite can manage them. To support this generalization we … examine the managerial capacity associated with elite status, highlighting which capabilities enable them to control changes …
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