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quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …
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We exploit differences in casualties sustained in pre-modern wars to estimate the impact of fiscal capacity on economic performance. In the past, states fought different amounts of external conflicts, of various lengths and magnitudes. To raise the revenues to wage wars, states made fiscal...
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A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country...
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(an) tool(impediment) in(to) the fight against corruption in Low(Middle) income countries. (2) Democracy increases (decreases …
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Does trade openness systematically imply bigger governments, as proposed by Rodrik (1998)? This paper presents a novel and more refined explanation for when and why international trade may enlarge the public sector. We propose that trade openness is associated with bigger governments if (i) the...
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Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized … process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly forgotten procedure to overcome this deficit: Aleatoric Democracy based on … considered. Persons and ideas, being so far disregarded, are taken into account. Democracy becomes vivid and creative, and does …
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quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …
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One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant about politics and … evaluate what they do know. Democracy and Political Ignorance mines the depths of public ignorance in America and reveals it as … a major challenge for democracy. It weighs various potential solutions, concluding that political ignorance is best …
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, democracy and globalization. Their book is a good introduction to these topics for both experts and laymen alike. The book is … theories which attempt to explain and understand it. The next two chapters deal with democracy and its application to the …
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We look at the relation between democracy and perceived subjective well-being, taking also into account the impact of … robust relationship between the extent of (direct) democracy and happiness can be observed. In a second step, we conduct a … we observe a robust positive and significant relationship between democracy and happiness …
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