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Research on the economic roots of democracy tends to focus on income, inequality, education, and/or urbanization. I hypothesize that industrialization — defined as a large share of employment in manufacturing — is more important for democracy. Using novel manufacturing employment data for...
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What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...
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What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364990
Purpose - This paper investigates the effect of state-society relations on the industrially-related growth paths of developed countries. Design/methodology/approach - It introduces a novel theoretical framework, the state-business-labor relations (SBLR) framework, where four main actors are...
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The nineteenth century was a time of substantial changes in the patterns of economic growth and the structure of and allocation of political rights. The concurrence of these changes is not coincidental. We develop a model in which ideological parties representing elites use the allocation of...
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This paper contrasts and compares the arguments of the unequal interdependence framework with the dependency theories on the sources of dichotomy between the core and the periphery. It also contrasts their arguments on the non-feasibility of the export-oriented strategy or the...
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This study investigates the transition of Sunan, located in China's southern Jiangsu Province, China using the orthodox Sunan model of development through a case study of Changzhou City. We found that post-Sunan development retains some of the characteristics of the orthodox Sunan model, and the...
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This research develops a unified growth theory that captures the transition from the domination of geographical factors in the determination of productivity in early stages of development to the domination of institutional factors in mature stages of development. It identifies a novel channel...
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