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Why did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality and Growth in Historical Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

widespread social unrest and revolution. Political transition, rather than redistribution under existing political institutions …

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Co-Opting Revolution in the Post-Revolutionary Age - Revolution as Embedded Counter-Culture in Swedish Finance

Norberg, Peter - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

notions of counter-culture and even revolution. …

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Democracy and the curse of natural resources

Hauk, Esther; Cabrales, Antonio - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2007

: policies should not give rise to a revolution. Our model clarifies when resource discoveries might lead to revolutions, namely …

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Democratic Errors

Ellis, Christopher J.; Fender, John - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2010

protest. This allows us to analyze the economic causes of political regime change based on the microfoundations of revolution …. We are able to derive conditions under which democracy arises peacefully, when it occurs only after a revolution, and …

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Societal Ethos and Economic Development Organizations in Nicaragua

Mària, Josep; Arenas, Daniel - In: Journal of Business Ethics 88 (2009) 2, pp. 231-244

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Iran‘s Oil Wealth: Treasure and Trouble for the Shah‘s Regime. A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance

Shabafrouz, Miriam - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2009

The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political instability and … focus is on the violence that accompanied the events preceding the revolution, and also on the fact that this violence was …

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Where is the Cuban economy heading ?.

Herrera, Rémy - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2006

, of the Cuban revolution in the economic field, until the recent dedollarization. It underlines its economic challenges at …

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Institutional Change in Meiji Japan: Image and Reality

Hunter, Janet - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004

The substantial institutional and organisational changes in Japan that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868 have often gone down in history as an unmitigated success story. The objective of this paper is to analyse the course of the Meiji reform process to indicate how far it might offer any...

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At a Glance -- Peace Process in Nepal

SAHR, South Asians for Human Rights - eSocialSciences - 2008

King Gyanendra of Nepal took over as a king after the royal massacre incidence in 2007. But soon after taking the power people of Nepal were fed up of his authoritarian tendencies and the continuous unrest in the country. The brutality of king Gyanendra compelled political forces in Nepal to...

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distributional dimensions of revolutionary transition : Ethiopia

SAITH, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1983

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