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The effects of economic development on democratic institutions and repression in non-democratic regimes : theory and evidence

Kemnitz, Alexander; Rößler, Martin - In: Constitutional political economy 34 (2023) 2, pp. 145-164

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Making Autocracy Work

Besley, Timothy J.; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - 2008

One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of...

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Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values

Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions : theory and evidence

Krieger, Tommy - 2022

We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect …

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When is a state predatory?

Robinson, James A. - 1999

I argue that whether or not a state is predatory hinges on the relationship between development and the distribution of political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo and this gives those who initially hold political power an...

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Regime Change, Democracy, and Growth

Freund, Caroline L. - 2014

The empirical literature on the relationship between democracy and growth has yielded conflicting results. Cross …-country studies have failed to identify a significant impact of democracy on growth, while within-country studies have found a strong … positive effect of the transition to democracy on growth. We reconcile the conflicting evidence by showing that the positive …

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