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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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Violence at work
Chappell, D; Di Martino, Vittorio - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1998
Provides a basis for understanding the nature of workplace violence and suggests ways of preventing. Focuses on those … data, experiences and publications which best help to explain and interpret the roots of violence at work, and to promote …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681381
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Theocracy is just another Form of Dictatorship: Theory and Evidence from the Papal Regimes
Padovano, Fabio; Wintrobe, Ronald - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2012
This paper tests the explanatory and predictive power of a theory of dictatorship (e.g., Wintrobe 1998, 2007) when … behaviour of the Catholic theocracy in the Papal States, as this was a very long lasting theocracy, exposed to many historical … explanatory power of the theory of dictatorship, showing that never in the history of the temporal power of the Church have the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969003
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On revolt and endogenous economic policy in autocratic regimes
Guttman, Joel; Reuveny, Rafael - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 1, pp. 27-52
Numerous empirical studies have investigated the direction of causality between democracy and economic growth (as well as the level of income per capita), but this empirical work has been paralleled by relatively few theoretical models that endogenize the institutional structure of the regime....
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Strategy-proof allocation mechanisms for economies with public goods
Moreno, Diego; Moscoso, María - In: Economic Theory 52 (2013) 1, pp. 315-336
We show that strategy-proof allocation mechanisms for economies with public goods are dictatorial—i.e., they always select an allocation in their range that maximizes the welfare of the same single individual (the dictator). Further, strategy-proof and efficient allocation mechanisms are...
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Making autocracy work
Besley, Timothy; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of...
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Collective choices under ambiguity
Levati, M. Vittoria; Napel, Stefan; Soraperra, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We investigate experimentally whether collective choice matters for individual attitudes to ambiguity. We consider a two-urn Ellsberg experiment: one urn offers a 45% chance of winning a fixed monetary prize, the other an ambiguous chance. Participants choose either individually or in groups of...
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A straightforward proof of Arrow's theorem
Fey, Mark - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1792-1797
We present a straightforward proof of Arrow's Theorem. Our approach avoids some of the complexities of existing proofs and is meant to be transparent and easily followed.
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Economic theories of dictatorship
Debs, Alexandre - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 5 (2010) 1, pp. 20-25
stability and economic performance of dictatorships. It reflects on the general usefulness of economic theories of dictatorship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941289
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Dictators Walking the Mogadishu Line: How Men Become Monsters and Monsters Become Men
Willems, Tim; Larcom, Shaun; Sarr, Mare - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behavior significantly over time (like Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe), while there are also cases of dictators who have displayed remarkable improvements (like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana).  We show that such mutations can result from rational...
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