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Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016

nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

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Democracy for polarized committees : the tale of Blotto's lieutenants

Casella, Alessandra; Laslier, Jean-François; Macé, Antonin - In: Games and economic behavior 106 (2017), pp. 239-259

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Freedom and Democracy in a World Governed by Finance : Habermas and the Crisis in Europe -- A Free Labor Response

Minda, Gary - 2017

Jürgen Habermas has recently warned that the sovereign debt crisis in Europe is transforming democratic governments into ‘economic government' threatening not only economic disaster but the end of the world's first supranational project — the European Union. And, according to Habermas,...

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Investing in influence : how minority interests can prevail in a democracy

Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2021

How can the West's economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various …

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Volatility and resilience of democratic public-good provision

Gersbach, Hans; Pitsuwan, Fikri; Bolgè, Giovanni Valvassori - 2024

We examine democratic public-good provision with heterogeneous legislators. Decisions are taken by majority rule and an agenda-setter proposes a level of the public good, taxes, and subsidies. Members are heterogeneous with respect to their benefits from the public good. We find that, depending...

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Democratizing from within : British elites and the expansion of the franchise

Basu, Chitralekha; Boix, Carles; Giurumescu, Sonia; … - 2022

We develop a theory of democratization that integrates both electoral calculations and economic incentives to explain the institutional choices of political actors. Left-leaning (liberal) politicians, who, given their location in the policy space, are more likely to receive the support of newly...

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Chapter 31 Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute

Polachek, Solomon W.; Seiglie, Carlos - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 1017-1073). 2007

comparative advantage leads to gains from trade. If political conflict leads to a diminution of trade, then at least a portion of … the costs of conflict can be measured by a nation's lost gains from trade. The greater two nations' gains from trade the … more costly is bilateral (dyadic) conflict. This notion forms the basis of Baron de Montesquieu's assertion regarding …

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Terror per capita

Jetter, Michael; Stadelmann, David - 2017

Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show that three stylized findings are overturned in...

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Democracy and Primary Education Spending in Spain, 1902-22

Azar, Paola; Espuelas, Sergio - 2021

By the turn of the 20th century, nation-building reformers in Spain tried to stimulate schooling expansion to improve (or at least dignify) Spain’s position in the international arena. However, in this paper we find that democratic imperfections help explaining the modest spread of primary...

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Religious Origins of Democracies and Dictatorships

Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013

In this paper, I argue that religion matters for the emergence of democracies and dictatorships. Religion is defined as demand for public goods. Different types of religious collectives reflect different tradeoffs between centralized resource distribution and market rewards. Religions are...

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