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Freund, Caroline L.; Jaud, Mélise - 2014

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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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Targeting autocrats : economic sanctions and regime change

Oechslin, Manuel - In: European journal of political economy 36 (2014), pp. 24-40

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The social preferences of democratically elected decision makers and the conflict between wealth generation and distribution

Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia - 2017

We run a laboratory experiment where some participants are selected to make investment decisions on behalf of others. We test whether a democratic context influences the social preferences of decision makers in terms of efficiency, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision...

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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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