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, common, Islamic or customary law — is a strong predictor of whether a constitution will have economic and social rights and …
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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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Institutional settings and the resulting incentive structures are crucial for economic development. The type of entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneurial effort are especially dependent on underlying incentive structures. We argue that institutions with better incentive structures for...
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structures of medieval Europe, but this explanation has been replaced by arguments favoring state capacity. Here we revitalize … the ‘polycentric Europe' hypothesis and argue it is a complement to state capacity explanations. We develop a new …
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How do domestic political institutions affect international conflict? Democratic peace theorists argue that jointly-democratic dyads are less likely to engage in war than other types of states, but these explanations cannot account for the large number of militarized conflicts that fall short of...
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