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individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
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This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two … is to show how a dictatorship can manipulate trade policy to maintain its grip on power in the face of permanent world …
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This paper starts with the observation that almost all military dictatorships that democratize become presidential democracies. I hypothesize that military interests are able to coordinate on status-preserving institutional change prior to democratization and therefore prefer political...
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In this paper, we create alternative measures of political instability, which capture movements only from dictatorship … to democracy and vice versa (consistent with the recent theoretical work by Acemoglu and Robinson) but, unlike older …
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Dictatorship is the predominant political system in many developing countries. However, different dictators act quite …
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This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two … is to show how a dictatorship can manipulate trade policy to maintain its grip on power in the face of permanent world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721779
democratization has a sizeable negative effect on loan spreads: a one-point increase in the zero-to-ten Polity IV index of democracy …
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subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competition are substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits … democracy, and rulers are less eager to oppose it, when external competition is high. In a panel of countries, there are fewer … changes towards democracy when states have low GDP relative to their neighbours. …
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