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Testa, Cecilia - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 6, pp. 1104-1118

The adverse effects of political and social polarization on government policies are empirically well documented, yet … elections in polarized societies contribute to improve quality of government. We consider both polarization among citizens and … political actors (political polarization), where the second is endogenously determined by parties competing to win the support …

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The effect of corruption on internal conflict in Iran using newspaper coverage

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption …

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Aid, terrorism, and foreign direct investment : empirical insight conditioned on corruption control

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2018

This paper examines the effect of foreign aid in the terrorism-FDI nexus while considering the extent of domestic corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 developing countries. The following findings are established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is...

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Los católicos globales. El primer sondeo global del catolicismo mundial según el “World Values Survey” y el “European Social Survey”

Tausch, Arno; Ghymers, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

four types and extremes of Catholicism, all anti-democratic, but in conflict with each other, and self …

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The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not?

Scartascini, Carlos; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...

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A Tragic Solution to the Collective Action Problem: Implications for Corruption, Conflict and Inequality

Nieva, Ricardo - 2020

the enforcer in conflict increases the group probability of winning only if the prize valuation of the enforcer is lower … which have been shown to form together with conflict and inequality endogenously; otherwise, this occurs with non corrupt …

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Resource rents, democracy and corruption : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is significantly stronger in less democratic...

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The making of policy : institutionalized or not?

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

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The political economics of the Arab Spring

Hodler, Roland - 2012

. -- Arab Spring ; political transitions ; repression ; civil conflict ; oil ; divided societies …

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What is the Contribution of the Theory of Redistribution Systems to the Theory of Corruption?

Otáhal, Tomáš - 2013

Scholars making economic policy recommendations to resolve corruption problem use several approaches, the most dominant of which are the principal-agent and rent-seeking theories. In this paper, we argue that the principal-agent theory has problems accounting for the environment in which the...

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