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Foreign aid in dangerous places: The donors and Mali's democracy
van de Walle, Nicolas - 2012
Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the … elements of vertical accountability that are necessary for democracy. On the other hand, aid was not very successful at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319848
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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? Mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017
This paper starts with the observation that almost all military dictatorships that democratize become presidential democracies. I hypothesize that military interests are able to coordinate on status-preserving institutional change prior to democratization and therefore prefer political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917070
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Democracy and International Conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016
During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...
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The social and political consequences of wartime sexual violence: New evidence from list experiments in three conflict-affected populations
Koos, Carlo; Traunmüller, Richard - 2022
Wartime sexual violence is widespread across conflict zones and thought to leave a disastrous legacy for survivors, communities, and nations. Yet, systematic studies on i) the prevalence and ii) the social and political consequences of wartime sexual violence are fraught with severe data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204765
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Democracy, Autocracy and the Likelihood of International Conflict
Tangerås, Thomas - 2008
This is a game-theoretic analysis of the link between regime type and international conflict. The democratic electorate can credibly punish the leader for bad conflict outcomes, whereas the autocratic selectorate cannot. For the fear of being thrown out of office, democratic leaders are (i) more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320243
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Downs' ökonomische Theorie der Demokratie 2.0: Politische Präferenzen und Gleichheitsaversion
Sell, Friedrich L.; Stratmann, Felix - 2011
Nach einem kurzen Rückblick auf das Downs-Modell diskutieren wir anhand empirischer Daten aus Deutschland dessen heutige Relevanz unter Berücksichtigung der aus der Fairness-Literatur bekannten Ungleichheitsaversion (UA). Dabei wird der Begriff der sozialen Präferenzen um das neue Konzept der...
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Income and democracy: a comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008)
Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2008
-fixed and time-fixed effects removes the statistical significance of income as a causal factor of democracy. We argue that their … reveals the strong effect of income on democracy. …
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Internal and external political competition
Hugh-Jones, David - 2009
subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competition are substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits … democracy, and rulers are less eager to oppose it, when external competition is high. In a panel of countries, there are fewer … changes towards democracy when states have low GDP relative to their neighbours. …
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A Reform Dilemma in Polarized Democracies
Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol - 2016
We study the feasibility and efficiency of policy reforms in polarized democracies. We develop a simple election model where (i) reforms are costly for voters and politicians and these costs increase with the extent of policy change, and (ii) politicians differ in their ability to carry out...
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Income and democracy: Evidence from system GMM estimates
Heid, Benedikt; Langer, Julian; Larch, Mario - 2011
Does higher income cause democracy? Accounting for the dynamic nature and highpersistence of income and democracy, we … find a statistically significant positive relationbetween income and democracy for a postwar period sample of up to 150 …
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