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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 …
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networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and …
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networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are …
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theorists have often stressed that democracy is in troubles when its population is not broadly uniform in income and wealth … connections between economic inequality and democracy, however, are not easy to detect and the body of literature is not so large … and to offer some hints on the political relevance of the inequality consequences, if any, on democracy …
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Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science …
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quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …
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majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … the essential of democracy. It could be a road to genuine reforms3 preventing a disaster caused by the sheer rejection of …
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, educate, and inform ourselves. Africa, despite having a very low number of fixed-broadband subscriptions for 100 inhabitants …
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This survey documents the different arguments discussed in the academic literature on whether and how economic inequality and the emergence and stability of democratic political systems are connected. While early research in this domain has often focused on new and emerging democracies, this...
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