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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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Toward a more general approach to political stability in comparative political systems
Apolte, Thomas - 2012
distinguishes different subgroups of a society, some of which have a potential for pursuing a redistribution of wealth in its … redistribution cycles, leading to failed states. For much the same reason, democratic constitutions contain effective measures … against redistribution cycles. Stability within non-democracies, by contrast, can be explained by the fact that commitments …
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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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Preferences for redistribution and perception of fairness : an experimental study
Durante, Ruben; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2013
We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … is affected by redistribution. We estimate utility weights for the different sources of demand for redistribution, with …
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