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Amin, Mohammad; Djankov, Simeon - 2013

We use a sample of 144 countries over the period 2003-2013 to investigate the link between democracy and regulatory … reforms. Democracy may be conducive to reform, as politicians embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. On the other … World Bank’s Doing Business database. The results provide some support for the hypothesis that democracy is good for …

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On a comparative analysis of the impact of democracy on regulatory reform

Nguena, Christian Lambert - In: European journal of comparative economics 19 (2022) 2, pp. 195-225

This paper questions the effect of democracy on regulatory reforms by mainly checking whether the observed differences … democracy. Our results, based primarily on the Oaxaca - Blinder decomposition approach, suggest that democracy is not the basis … of these observed differences. This calls into question the importance of democracy when it comes to unleashing the …

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Age of politicians and regulatory reform

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Kabange, Martin Mulunda - 2016

This article discusses the relationship between the identity of the rulers of the executive and reform. Thus, we enrich the literature on the determinants of reform and the result of the executive. This is a new and very important literature, as these are the reforms that allow progress. We use...

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The market-promoting and market-preserving role of social trust in reforms of policies and institutions

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017

Social trust has been identified as a catalyst for reforms. We take the literature further in two ways. First, we make a fine-grained analysis of mechanisms through which social trust enables liberalizing reforms - by strengthening the ability to overcome obstacles in the political process...

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New Party, New Country : Political Reform in Japan after The Election of 1993

Bhargava, Nishanth - 2023

, they ultimately failed to make Japan's democracy truly competitive and transform the nation's political culture as …

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Financial Liberalization and Democracy : The Role of Reform Reversals

Campos, Nauro F. - 2009

partial or captured democracy. We provide as well econometric support showing that even when de facto is modelled as a …

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Policy reforms and the amount of checks & balances

Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Wagner, Julia - 2022

We examine how democracies choose their amount of checks and balances (C&B). For this purpose, we consider a simple model of political competition with costly policy reforms. The cost of a marginal reform is determined endogenously at the constitutional phase-i.e. before policies are...

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European neighbourhood policy and economic reforms in the eastern neighbourhood

Paczynski, Wojciech - 2009

The paper discusses the current and potential role of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in anchoring economic reforms in the countries of the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood. It claims that it is too early to assess the success of the ENP in this sphere especially given that the actual progress...

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Institutional Reform Paths

Buchen, Clemens - 2021

Broadly speaking, institutional reformers decide about the sequencing of types of reforms, either addressing institutional quality or macroeconomic stability. This paper develops a dynamic population game, in which agents play a simple anonymous-exchange game of cooperating or defecting. Agents...

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South Africa : the political economy of transformation

Stedman, Stephen John (ed.) - 1994

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