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Outside-In: The Effects of External Threat on State Centralization
Gibler, Douglas M. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 54 (2010) 4, pp. 519-542
Although centralization is thought to be a common response to external threats to the state, few theories develop the mechanisms by which domestic centralization occurs. Fewer still consistently demonstrate that centralization is indeed a common response to external threats in all states. This...
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You Can’t Win If You Don’t Fight
Getmansky, Anna - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 57 (2013) 4, pp. 709-734
What effect, if any, does democracy have on outcomes of counterinsurgency wars? Previous studies have provided … their determinants can also affect insurgency incidence and its outcomes. Moreover, different aspects of democracy can have …
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Drivers of internationalisation of companies from emerging economies: comparing Petrobras (Brazil) and PDVSA (Venezuela)
Goldstein, Andrea; Baena, Cesar - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 3 (2010) 4, pp. 392-407
The history of the global oil industry is essential to understand the rise of multinational enterprises. Petrobras, in particular, has started to exploit in international markets the world-class technology it developed to exploit deepwater oil fields. PDVSA, on the other hand, has focused its...
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Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes, and Policy Outcomes in Venezuela
Monaldi, Francisco; Pacheco, Rosa Amelia González de; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
that the political institutions that established Venezuela's democracy in the 1960s were deliberately set up to generate a …
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The Dictator and the Parties A Study on Policy Co-operation in Mineral Economies
Astorga, Pablo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2001
This paper develops a game to study the possibility of co-operative behaviour in a situation where the political system is dominated by two strong, opportunistic parties competing in an economy highly dependent on the export of a commodity. Since a binding agreement as an external solution is...
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Downs' ökonomische Theorie der Demokratie 2.0: Politische Präferenzen und Gleichheitsaversion
Sell, Friedrich L.; Stratmann, Felix - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 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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An empirical study of the limits and perspectives of institutional transfers
Möller, Marie - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2012
The aim of this paper is to determine which country-specific characteristics promote and which impede the adoption of institutions. On the basis of a broad panel of 183 countries for the period between 1996 and 2010, we test whether there are tendencies towards a general improvement and towards...
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Governance, Demokratie und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den ehemals sozialistischen Staaten
Apolte, Thomas; Peters, Heiko - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2009
unterschiedlichem Tempo und sequencing den Weg zu Demokratie und einer marktwirtschaftlichen Wirtschaftsordnung. Die polit … die Frage, ob die Einführung von Demokratie angesichts umfassender ökonomischer Reformen nicht besser verzögert werden … sollte. Nach einer theoretischen Betrachtung von Governance, Demokratie und Reformen folgt in diesem Beitrag ein Überblick …
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Revisiting the Politics of the Ganga Water Dispute between India and Bangladesh
Pandey, Punam - In: India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs 68 (2012) 3, pp. 267-281
India and Bangladesh have signed the Ganga/Ganges River Water treaty in December 1996. The Ganga Water treaty is cited as one of the important examples of peaceful negotiations between upstream and downstream neighbours in South Asia. The present article revisits the Indo-Bangladesh Ganga Water...
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Coming into Money: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Leader Survival
Licht, Amanda A. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 54 (2010) 1, pp. 58-87
Donors are more likely to send aid to leaders facing elevated risks of losing power, but targets’ ability to benefit from this assistance is conditioned by regime type and political processes. The institutionalization of winning coalitions’ loyalty across regime type follows...
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