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International Public Procurement Agreements - Problems of Implemetations in Switzerland
Frey, René L.; Kilchenmann, Christoph; Krautter, Nicolai - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 3, pp. 31-37
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037299
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Storable Votes: Giving Voice to Minority Preferences without Sacrificing Efficiency
Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas; Riezman, Raymond - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 3, pp. 17-22
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056461
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Working paper No. 240 Bloc – party Politics and Economic Outcomes. What Are the Effects of Local Parties?
Lakomaa, Erik; Korpi, Martin - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
In a much cited 2008 article, Per Pettersson-Lidbom uses regression discontinuity to test for Swedish party effects on economic policies such as municipal taxation, spending and employment. We reassess the issue using the same estimator as Pettersson-Lidbom but new data on all factual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164356
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462098
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984522
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? The economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World
Möller, Marie - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2011
While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions. Based on a general cause-and-effect mechanism, the author analyzes whether such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385887
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Public choice, political economy and development: an introduction to the life, times and themes of Martin Paldam
Aidt, Toke; Bjørnskov, Christian; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 3, pp. 357-365
functions and political business cycles; (2) democracy and institutions; (3) the economics of corruption; (4) development aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987953
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The constitution of economic growth: Testing the prosperity effects of a Madisonian model on a panel of countries 1980‐2000
Justesen, Mogens K.; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Political scientists and economists increasingly agree that institutions may influence economic growth, but there is little general agreement on what institutions tend to produce what consequences. We apply public choice insights for a theoretical analysis that may be termed “Madisonian”:...
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Democracy and prosperity in two decades of transition
Apolte, Thomas - Centrum für angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2010
This paper revisits the relation between democracy, liberalization, and prosperity in transition countries, using a …-shaped relationship between political liberalization and growth is found, such that a rise in democracy levels promotes growth only under … initially low democracy levels. Furthermore, economic and political liberalization turn out to be positively related, but with …
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