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Democracy and international conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016
During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452800
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Sunlight Disinfects? Free Media in Weak Democracies
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2018
Free media may not favor political accountability when other democratic institutions are weak, and may even bring undesirable unintended consequences. We propose a simple model in which candidates running for office may engage in coercion to obtain votes. A media scandal exposing these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938540
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Democracy and International Conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto - 2016
During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992613
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Classist Democracies
Roy, Jaideep - 2021
We study classist societies where the middle class fight over redistribution of public funds with the marginalized and over social policies with the elites. We show that such societies are often deprived of well-defined majoritarian preferences, underscoring the importance of the party system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313170
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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? : mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017
This paper starts with the observation that almost all military dictatorships that democratize become presidential democracies. I hypothesize that military interests are able to coordinate on status-preserving institutional change prior to democratization and therefore prefer political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763058
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Capitalism, Democracy, and Countermajoritarian Institutions
Weingast, Barry R. - 2015
a market economy requires sustained restrictions on democracy – the rule of law, strong property rights, and enforcement … – make constitutions more likely to survive. Democratic theorists who value unfettered democracy but who also value … also less stable. Further, countermajoritarian provisions are often necessary to the instantiation of democracy as …
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Dokumentation der internationalen Recherche
Weidenfeld, Werner (contributor) - 2001
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The roots of Islamist armed struggle, 1968 - 2007 : conference paper
Meierrieks, Daniel; Krieger, Tim - 2014
This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...
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Terror per capita
Jetter, Michael; Stadelmann, David - 2017
terror per capita. Democracy, previously associated with more casualties, emerges as a marginally negative predictor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602738
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The impact of US trade sanctions on the global trade of target countries : do the political institutions of the targets matter?
Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2024
stronger political institutions, as measured by democracy indicators, manage to alleviate some of the adverse effects of US …
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