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Democratic Backsliding in the World’s Largest Democracy

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Democratic backsliding is a growing concern globally. This paper contributes to the discussion by documenting irregular patterns in 2019 general election in India and identifying whether they are due to electoral manipulation or precise control, i.e., incumbent party’s ability to precisely...

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Post-political transitions in Arab spring countries : the challenges

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Culture matters : how values shape human progress

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Democracy and institutional quality : theory and evidence

Krieger, Tommy - 2019

We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracy on institutional quality is increasing...

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Arab Spring, Democratization of Corruption, and Income Inequality

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corruption and income inequality. Using panel data from 1996 to 2019 for the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, we … find that while corruption is positively associated with income inequality, the interaction term between corruption and the … Arab Spring is negatively associated with income inequality. This result is consistent with the view that corruption has …

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Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Akarca, Ali; Tansel, Aysit - 2021

, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The … incompetence shown by the government in providing relief, the corruption allegations in regards to those efforts, and government … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …

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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions : theory and evidence

Krieger, Tommy - 2022

We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...

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