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The spectacular and unexpected explosion of revolutionary energy in the Arab world since the start of 2011 makes it more relevant to re-examine the chain of attempts to depose the quasi-democratic regimes in the states that emerged from the break-up of the USSR. Often called "color revolutions",...
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democracy is evolving in East Asia and how it assumes different forms in different countries, with political parties adapting …
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building is a check to the predominance of political dictatorship and authoritarianism. Literature reverberate the contribution …
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political regimes for economic performance. Research on democracy's effect on growth is inconclusive. At the same time, a few … studies and cases find authoritarianism to display growth-enhancing attributes. This paper revisits the issue, finding that … a tradition of democracy. Sociopolitical stability is also shown to be a necessary complementary condition. Economic …
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This paper examines the political economy of the Orange Revolution in an effort to understand routes by which less democratic postcommunist countries might break with an illiberal status quo. The fusion of Ukraine's rent-seeking economic interests and illiberal political regime produced an...
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In October 1910 a revolution drove out the king of Portugal and established the Portuguese Republic. In 1926 a military coup overthrew the parliamentary system and led to the authoritarian regime of Salazar, but in April 1974 a revolution led by the military restored the parliamentary republic....
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fashion. The breakdown of authoritarianism and state-centred approach and moving into a successful democratic consolidation … of the most important difficulties for consolidating democracy in Turkey has been the complexity of creating stable …
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recession. The study uses recent data for unemployment benefit recipients in Estonia – a country where the rise in unemployment …
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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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