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Nigeria, Democracy, and the Economy
Teriba, Ayo - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033555
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Foot Voting, Decentralization, and Development
Somin, Ilya - 2019
We can enhance development by making it easier for people to “vote with their feet” between jurisdictions. Few, if any, policy reforms can achieve such enormous increases in economic growth and opportunity. Foot voting is, in several crucial respects, a better mechanism of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899463
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How 2023 Elections Will Reshape Nigeria's Future
Teriba, Ayo - 2023
president. This is the first time that a party will be in firm control of both the presidency and the parliament.This and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255404
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Demography, Democracy, Development and Urban Protest in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fox, Sean - 2021
Why are some countries in sub-Saharan Africa more prone to outbreaks of urban protests than others? Drawing together insights from the contentious politics and conflict studies literatures I develop an empirical model of protest incidence comprised of basic demographic, political and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221898
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Party system change and the quality of democracy in East Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim - 2017
qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are … qualities of democracy, we find that while the frequency of change has a beneficial impact on the qualities of democracy, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759235
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406570
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Economic development, democratic institutions, and repression in non-democratic regimes : theory and evidence
Kemnitz, Alexander; Roessler, Martin - 2017
This paper analyzes the utilization of repression and democratic institutions by a non-democratic government striving …, depending on whether it appears in the form of rises in income or in education: A higher income level reduces democracy, whereas … more education leads to both more democracy and more repression. These theoretical findings are corroborated by panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623029
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Does Oil Hinder Democratic Development? A Time-Series Analysis
O'Connor, Kelsey - 2016
whether oil affects democratic institutions. We further the debate through the use of additional measures of democracy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996271
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668293
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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2005
of democracy (rather than democracy vs. non-democracy) has important consequences for the adoption of structural polices … opposed to majoritarian) and permanent (as opposed to temporary) democracy appear to produce the most growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065998