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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? : mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes
Bjørnskov, Christian - In: Public choice 185 (2020) 1/2, pp. 21-43
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Coups and economic crises
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2022
from both democracy and military dictatorship. …
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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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Coups, regime transitions, and institutional change
Bennett, Daniel L.; Bjørnskov, Christian; Gohmann, … - 2019
Coups and regime transitions are events that typically are intended to change the basic institutional framework of a country. Which specific policies change and the consequences of these changes nevertheless remains largely unknown. Change after a coup or transition implies that some form of...
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Democracy versus dictatorship? : the political determinants of growth episodes
Sen, Kunal; Pritchett, Lant; Kar, Sabyasachi; Raihan, Selim - 2017
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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....
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Efficiency, Policy Selection, and Growth in Democracy and Autocracy : A Formal Dynamical Model
Akhremenko, Andrei - 2014
The main focus of this paper is the impact of efficiency losses, related to public capital stock, on the prospects of economic growth in democratic and autocratic political environments. We introduce a distinction between two types of efficiency loss: along with the loss of public capital during...
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Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability
Caselli, Francesco - 2013
We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. We document the following regularities. Natural resource windfalls have no effect on the political system when they occur in democracies. However, windfalls have significant political consequences...
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The Media Rent-Seeking Society : Differences in Democratic and Autocratic Environments
Hosp, Gerald - 2004
Attention of the public is scarce and channeled by the mass media. This creates opportunities for informational rent-seeking. Governments are in a favorable position for grasping media rents as they can regulate the media. However, the extent of regulation and, thus, the agenda-setting power are...
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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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