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Gallup Democracy in Exercising the NATO Membership Option : The Cases of Finland and Sweden

Kanniainen, Vesa - 2022

The paper asks whether the exercising of the NATO membership option is justified for Finland and Sweden in the light of their geopolitical state after Russia’s attack on Ukraine. It was the Gallup democracy, which launched the political moves towards the membership. In both countries, the...

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War and Democracy

Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2021

This paper presents a general equilibrium model of conflict based on a world populated by representative democracies. At the individual state level, when information regarding a leader?s ability to defend the state against unavoidable conflict is valuable to voters, an incumbent leader seeking...

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Gallup democracy in exercising the NATO membership option : the cases of Finland and Sweden

Kanniainen, Vesa - 2022

The paper asks whether the exercising of the NATO membership option is justified for Finland and Sweden in the light of their geopolitical state after Russia's attack on Ukraine. It was the Gallup democracy, which launched the political moves towards the membership. In both countries, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337349

Democracy's third wave and national defense spending

Blum, Johannes - 2020

I investigate how the third wave of democracy influenced national defense spending by using a panel of 110 countries … that democracy's third wave decreased defense spending relative to GDP by about 10% within countries that experienced … national defense spending relative to GDP by about 20% within countries, demonstrating that OLS results underestimate the …

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Agreeing to Fight : An Explanation of the Democratic Peace

Patty, John W.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2002

In this paper we extend the well known "agreeing-to-disagree" and "no-trade" results from economics and game theory to international relations. We show that two rational countries should never agree to go to war when war is inefficient and when rationality is common knowledge. We argue that this...

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The roots of Islamist armed struggle, 1968 - 2007 : conference paper

Meierrieks, Daniel; Krieger, Tim - 2014

This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...

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Chapter 21 : Public Sector Labor Issues: Rights, Retrenchment, and Democracy

Mareschal, Patrice M.; Ciorici, Patricia - 2013

Public sector unions operate in politically challenging environments. Recent limitations on collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin and attempts to curtail collective bargaining in Ohio are illustrative of union vulnerability to shifts in the political climate. In Wisconsin, only months after...

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Foreign aid in dangerous places: The donors and Mali's democracy

van de Walle, Nicolas - 2012

Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the territory came under the military control of an Islamist secessionist movement, and a military coup deposed the democratically-elected government in the capital. Given the substantial...

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Investment and Expropriation under Oligarchy and Democracy in a Heckscher-Ohlin World

Albornoz, Facundo; Galiani, Sebastián; Heymann, Daniel - 2008

We study the incentives to expropriate foreign capital under democracy and oligarchy. We model a two-sector small open economy where foreign investment triggers Stolper-Samuelson effects through reducing exporting costs. We show how incentives to expropriate depend on the distributional effects...

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Foreign Aid Dynamics in Democratic Transitions

Reinsberg, Bernhard - 2012

This study analyzes the dynamic impact of democratization on receipt of foreign aid. Since the 1990s, this relationship has been increasingly important, given the end of the Cold War and the related turn to good governance, increased pressure from donor publics for political conditionality, and...

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