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A Quantitative Theory of Political Transitions
Buchheim, Lukas - 2019
We develop a quantitative theory of repeated political transitions driven by revolts and reforms. In the model, the …
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A theory of political transitions
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - In: The American economic review 91 (2001) 4, pp. 938-963
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A theory of political transitions
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 1999
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A theory of political transitions
Acemoglu, Daron - 1999
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Why is there no revolution in North-Korea? : the political economy of revolution revisited
Apolte, Thomas - 2010
; Political Economy ; Redistribution …
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Piketty's Inequality between the Profit and Growth Rates and Its Implications for the Reproduction of Economic Elites
Benítez Sánchez, Alberto - 2017
This paper studies, within a growth model, some effects of the inequality between the profit and growth rates on the reproduction of economic elites. To this end, it considers as functions of the capital/income ratio the relations between, on the one hand, the rate of economic growth and, on the...
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Inequality and the Instability of Polity and Policy
Dutt, Pushan; Mitra, Devashish - 2007
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, well known measures do not capture government changes that...
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A quantitative theory of political transitions
Buchheim, Lukas; Ulbricht, Robert - In: The review of economic studies : RES 87 (2020) 4, pp. 1726-1756
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - 2013
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail … suggesting that inequality tends to increase after democratization when the economy has already undergone significant structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071803
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Chapter 21. Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1885-1966). 2015
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution, and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail … suggesting that inequality tends to increase after democratization when the economy has already undergone significant structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025324