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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320945
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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/10014078678
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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300935
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489890
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121105
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014038515
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319848
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301201
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552202