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Strengthening the roles of political parties in Public Accountability - A case study of a new approach in political party assistance
Speijcken, Renée - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
Donors in development cooperation increasingly emphasize the importance of public accountability in developing countries for the good functioning of democratic institutions, governance and the effectiveness of their aid. Political parties are prime actors in a democratic society that have...
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The role of authoritative media in Economics
Bušs, Ginters - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper explores the link between authoritative media, which is called the public court in the paper, and economic prosperity. Three types of evidence are used. First, arguments of the superiority of the public court over traditional media are provided. Second, a formal model shows a causal...
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Institutionalized Social Technologies Index: A Global Perspective
Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed; Ahmed, Qazi Masood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents an index of institutionalized social technologies covering its two main dimensions namely Risk reducing technologies and Anti Rent seeking technologies and in turn covers several social, institutional, political and economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and...
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 29 (2015) 1, pp. 3-28
Thomas Piketty's (2013) book, <em>Capital in the 21st Century</em>, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...
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Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Piketty, Thomas - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 29 (2015) 1, pp. 67-88
When a lengthy book is widely discussed in academic circles and the popular media, it is probably inevitable that the arguments of the book will be simplified in the telling and retelling. In the case of my book <em>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</em> (2014), a common simplification of the main...
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Essays on Growth and Political Transition
Hakobyan, Lilit - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
sides of political power. The data seem to indicate that democratization induces additional socially wasteful investments … environment switches from a “weak” to a “strong” one. The potential tradeoff between democratization and political stability is …) employs asymmetric (G)ARCH models; (ii) analyses variations in within-country effects of democratization on the growth …
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Are human rights and economic well-being substitutes? Evidence from migration patterns across the Indian states
Libman, Alexander; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten; Yadav, Gaurav - Frankfurt School of Finance and Management - 2011
The aim of the paper is to study the relation between the demand for human rights and for economic prosperity. It analyzes the demand not, as it is often done in the literature, from the 'voice' perspective (political activity), but rather looks at the 'exit' perspective (migration patterns)....
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Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies
Clague, Christopher; Keefer, Philip; Knack, Stephen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
We present and test empirically a new theory of property and contract rights. Any incentive an autocrat has to respect such rights comes from his interest in future tax collections and national income and increases with his planning horizon. We find a compelling empirical relationship between...
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The choice of lobbying strategy: direct contacts with officials or mediation via business associations
Govorun, Andrei - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
The influence of lobbying activity on economic growth and welfare is widely observed in the literature. Many scholars consider lobbying as a sort of rent-seeking and blame it for non-optimal redistribution of assets, additional costs for firms, and resource reallocation from productive...
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Political Transition, Economic Growth and Reoccurring Crisis in Countries with and without Experience of Military Dictatorship
Hakobyan, Lilit - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
This paper analyses the experience of 83 countries from the period of 1950-2004 and addresses the following question: when do democratic transitions produce (good) bad economic outcomes. Following the theoretical papers of Acemoglu et al. (2004, 2008(a)), an attempt is made to control for both...
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