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The economic effects of democratic participation
Mueller, Dennis C.; Stratmann, Thomas - 2002
Considerable concern has been expressed in recent years about declines in voter participation rates in the United States and in several other major democratic countries. Some feel low participation rates introduce a class bias into the political process and thereby worsen the outcomes from it....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408980
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The economic effects of democratic participation
Mueller, Dennis C.; Stratmann, Thomas - 2002
Considerable concern has been expressed in resent years about declines in voter participartion rates in the United States and in several other major democratic countries. Some feel low participation rates intropuce a "class bias" into the political process and thereby worsen the outcomes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001649183
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The economic effects of democratic participation
Mueller, Dennis C.; Stratmann, Thomas - In: Journal of public economics 87 (2003) 9/10, pp. 2129-2155
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The Economic Effects of Democratic Participation
Mueller, Dennis C.; Stratmann, Thomas - 2021
Considerable concern has been expressed in recent years about declines in voter participation rates in the United States and in several other major democratic countries. Some feel low participation rates introduce a "class bias" into the political process and thereby worsen the outcomes from it....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320633
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Democracy and Economic Growth : Do Swing Voters Make a Difference?
Bhardwaj, Abhishek - 2017
the swing voters strengthen the positive association between democracy and growth …
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Political competition and economic performance : theory and evidence from the United States
Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten; Sturm, Daniel - 2006 - First draft June 2005, this version November 2005
We formulate a model to explain why the lack of political competition may stifle economic performance and use the United States as a testing ground for the model’s predictions, exploiting the 1965 Voting Rights Act which helped break the near monpoly on political power of the Democrats in...
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Wohlstand ohne Wachstum : die Hintergrundberichte
Bodmer, Frank (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002178831
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What mattered most in the Brexit vote? : evidence from detailed regression and decomposition analysis
Drinkwater, Stephen J.; Blackaby, David; Robinson, Catherine - 2024
The UK's decision to leave the EU continues to have major economic, political and social implications. It is therefore unsurprising that the reasons behind Brexit have been widely discussed. However, whilst existing empirical evidence has tended to focus on specific factors, we undertake a...
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Information aggregation, growth, and franchise extension with applications to female enfranchisement and inequality
Ellis, Christopher J.; Fender, John - In: Bulletin of economic research 68 (2016) 3, pp. 239-267
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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980-2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …
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