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Thomas Friedman’s First Law of Petropolitics has acquired wide circulation and acceptance without being subjected to proper scrutiny. His claim that, in oil-rich, less-developed countries, there is an inverse correlation between the price of oil and the level of freedom is false. Friedman...
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to the event of becoming a democracy.  We find that democratization leads to a more market-based financial system … democratization on financial structure in a sample of 96 countries covering the period 1970 to 2005.  Democratization here corresponds … change on financial structure we estimate a separate model and find that democracy matters.  We also find that countries with …
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) incompatibility between democracy and justice; the idea that a context of justice only exists within the confines of a state; and the … view that political democracy presupposes a demos organised within a state. Only if these dogmas are overcome can a proper … conception of transnational justice and democracy be worked out. The key to this is the right picture of justice as based on a …
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to the event of becoming a democracy. We find that democratization leads to a more market-based financial system … democratization on financial structure in a sample of 96 countries covering the period 1970 to 2005. Democratization here corresponds … on financial structure we estimate a separate model and find that democracy matters. We also find that countries with …
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development path from monarchy to oligarchy and .nally to democracy with full surage. When it is too costly for any group of …
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whether they should still be considered as democracies at risk. Using the concept of embedded democracy developed by Wolfgang … concerning the social and economic requisites of democracy) still shows significant deficiencies. The main argument is that due …
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state of European constitutionalism and of some changes in its landscape, arguing that democracy as the central …
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Altneuland: The European Constitutional Terrain It is in many respects a New Land - for the first time the Union is openly, officially using the word Constitution in its formal self-understanding. But this, in turn, places it, at least lexically, in the age old terrain of constitutionalism which...
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per se, it links republican views of democracy and constitutionalism with the process of EU polity-building. It is also …
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