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Busse, Matthias - 2003

Many believe that multinational enterprises insensitively ignore political rights and civil liberties in the countries of their investments. Frequently, non-governmental organisations accuse multinationals of fostering repressive regimes in developing countries and consider foreign direct...

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Governance, Demokratie und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den ehemals sozialistischen Staaten

Apolte, Thomas; Peters, Heiko - 2009

unterschiedlichem Tempo und sequencing den Weg zu Demokratie und einer marktwirtschaftlichen Wirtschaftsordnung. Die polit … die Frage, ob die Einführung von Demokratie angesichts umfassender ökonomischer Reformen nicht besser verzögert werden … sollte. Nach einer theoretischen Betrachtung von Governance, Demokratie und Reformen folgt in diesem Beitrag ein Überblick …

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Liberalization, democracy and economic performance during transition

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2000

This paper analyzes the inter-relations between economic and political processes during transition in 25 post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The main findings are the following: First, economic liberalization generally has positive effect on growth...

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Income and democracy: a comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008)

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2008

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) demonstrate that estimation of the standard adjustment model with country-fixed and time-fixed effects removes the statistical significance of income as a causal factor of democracy. We argue that their empirical approach must produce insignificant...

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Why populist democracy promotes market liberalization

Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - 2008

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to...

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Two views on institutions and development: The grand transition vs. the primacy of institutions

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic...

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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy

Altındağ, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010

Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...

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