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La transparencia presupuestaria en Costa Rica en el período 2003-2009
Palma Rodríguez, Carlos - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 29 (2011) 01
Este articulo analiza los principales resultados del estudio sobre la transparencia de los presupuestos públicos de Costa Rica y una evolución de los principales atributos que la conforman, en el periodo 2003-2009, como un elemento relevante, dentro de la nueva concepción de la Gestión...
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Who trusts Berlusconi? : an econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first econometric investigation into the role of television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust in television to be the most significant predictor of...
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Social capital and political institutions : evidence that democracy fosters trust
Ljunge, Martin - 2013
This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with ancestries from 115 countries are studied within 30 European countries. Comparing individuals born and residing in the same country, those whose father was born in a more...
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Inequality undermines democracy and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason - Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar <30., … - 2019 - Final version 21 January 2019
in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …
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Electoral democracy at work
Askenazy, Philippe; Breda, Thomas - 2020
We show that an institutional change designed expressly to heighten competition for the provision of union services can have a substantial effect on unionization and employment relations. We study a French reform of 2008 that introduced mandatory elections for representation of workers at firm,...
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Democratic government and development : a survey
Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - In: Asian development review 32 (2015) 2, pp. 153-177
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The change in the perception of the state by students in Poland and Lithuania in the context of research on social capital
Nagaj, Rafał; Szkudlarek, Piotr - In: Economic research 32 (2019) 1,2, pp. 1298-1319
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Wall Street's Assault on Democracy : How Financial Markets Exacerbate Inequalities
Ugeux, Georges - 2023
“Without equality there can be no democracy.” Eleanor Roosevelt, 1944 Bill Gates famously said at the World Economic … well. This book is an attempt to make financial markets a critical element of this news and capitalism. On November 24 … examine how the international financial market can reform themselves to reduce their inequalities and threaten democracy. It …
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Financial gains and value loss? : the impacts of local mixed companies
Peters, B. Guy; Pierre, Jon; Røiseland, Asbjørn - In: Annals of public and cooperative economics 85 (2014) 1, pp. 87-102
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Can Top-Down and Bottom-Up be Reconciled? Electoral Competition and Service Delivery in Malaysia
Mccourt, Willy - In: World Development 40 (2012) 11, pp. 2329-2341
Top-down versus bottom-up is one of development’s enduring tensions, not least in public service delivery. In Malaysia, public services have traditionally been animated from the top down. Bottom-up forces in civil society have strengthened recently, but so too have top-down forces, and their...
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