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Inequality, Democracy, and Institutions : A Critical Review of Recent Research
Savoia, Antonio; Easaw, Joshy; McKay, Andrew D. - 2010
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the effect of economic and political inequality on institutions. The current understanding suggests that unequal societies develop exploitative and inefficient institutions. Empirical research - which is scant, and has mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199186
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A Lipsetian Theory of Democratization : Development, Education, Inequality, and Resources
Boucekkine, Raouf - 2017
The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963389
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A Lipsetian theory of democratization : development, education, inequality, and resources
Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo G.; Prieur, Fabien - 2016
The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587539
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Entwicklungsperspektiven in Asien und Afrika
Frantz, Christiane (ed.); Konegen, Norbert (contributor) - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001575147
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Good reasons for liberal democracy and the fear of losing it
Villani, Andrea - In: Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali 126 (2018) 3, pp. 307-321
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Inequality, economic development, and democratization
Houle, Christian - In: Studies in comparative international development 51 (2016) 4, pp. 503-529
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A contribution to the empirics of economic development : the role of technology, inequality, and the state
Gründler, Klaus - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874845
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Dictatorship, Democracy, and Exit
Taylor, Brad R. - 2019
The argument for democracy over dictatorship is often made on second-best grounds. Given the possibility of self … considers the degree of predation under dictatorship and democracy given varying exit costs. A self-interested dictator will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014032669
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Trade Unions and Transfer Payments : When are They Reasons to Prefer Democracy to Dictatorship?
Roemer, John E. - 1998
Under dictatorship, trade unions and strikes are illegal, and so wages are low and employment is full. Under democracy … and asset-holders-the latter vote, but supply capital rather than labor. In the move from dictatorship to democracy, the … of CES production functions, it is indeed the case that the democracy-favoring coalition grows with economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064543
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Liquid Democracy. Two Experiments on Delegation in Voting
Casella, Alessandra; Campbell, Joseph; de Lara, Lucas; … - 2023
Liquid Democracy is a voting system touted as the golden medium between representative and direct democracy: decisions … information is ambiguous. In both experiments, delegation rates are high, and Liquid Democracy underperforms both universal voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264131