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Party system change and the quality of democracy in East Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim - 2017
qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are … qualities of democracy, we find that while the frequency of change has a beneficial impact on the qualities of democracy, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759235
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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022
This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412764
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The impact of US trade sanctions on the global trade of target countries : do the political institutions of the targets matter?
Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2024
stronger political institutions, as measured by democracy indicators, manage to alleviate some of the adverse effects of US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464169
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Regional redistribution of mineral resource wealth in Africa
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - ZEW - 2021
We study the economic implications of mineral resource activity for non-mining regions at the grid-level across the African continent. We find that capital cities benefit from mineral resource activity anywhere in the country. Leaders’ birth regions also benefit, but only in autocratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492853
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The effects of constitutions on coalition governments in parliamentary democracies
Diermeier, Daniel; Eraslan, Hülya; Merlo, Antonio - In: Democratic constitutional design and public policy : …, (pp. 133-161). 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003581645
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Icelandic and Spanish citizens before the crisis : size matters ... and institutions too
Cabiedes Miragaya, Laura - In: Revista de economía mundial : REM ; revista de la … 43 (2016), pp. 205-234
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855727
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Income and democracy: a comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008)
Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2008
-fixed and time-fixed effects removes the statistical significance of income as a causal factor of democracy. We argue that their … reveals the strong effect of income on democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263527
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Does foreign aid promote democracy? Aid, democracy, and instability from trade
Kangoye, Thierry - 2011
instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings …, aggregate aid flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms-of-trade instability on the quality of democracy. An empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280182
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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide: Recent longitudinal evidence
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282215
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Income and democracy: a comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008)
Gundlach, Erich (contributor); Paldam, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
-fixed and time-fixed effects removes the statistical significance of income as a causal factor of democracy. We argue that their … reveals the strong effect of income on democracy. -- Democracy ; modernization hypothesis ; fixed-effects estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003764592