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Policy reforms and the amount of checks & balances
Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Wagner, Julia - 2022
We examine how democracies choose their amount of checks and balances (C&B). For this purpose, we consider a simple model of political competition with costly policy reforms. The cost of a marginal reform is determined endogenously at the constitutional phase-i.e. before policies are...
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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004
liberalizations correspond to the event of becoming a democracy. Using a difference-indifference estimation, we ask what are the …
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A social state in the countries of Central Eastern Europe and in Ukraine : economic and political factors
Silenko, Alla; Bezrodna, Vira; Lyasota, Lyudmyla - In: Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 6 (2020) 4, pp. 149-155
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János Kornai as political economist
Haggard, Stephan - In: Acta oeconomica : periodical of the Hungarian Academy … 68 (2018), pp. 9-25
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Economic, social and institutional determinants of internal conflict in fragile states
All-e-Raza Rizvi, Syed Muhammad; Véganzonès, Marie-Ange - 2022
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Citizens' support for economic reforms in sub-Saharan Africa
Congdon Fors, Heather - In: The South African journal of economics 84 (2016) 3, pp. 343-363
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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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God does not play dice, but people should : random selection in politics, science and society
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2014
This paper discusses and proposes random selection as a component in decision-making in society. Random procedures have played a significant role in history, especially in classical Greece and the medieval city-states of Italy. We examine the important positive features of decisions by random...
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The democratic window of opportunity : evidence from riots in sub-Saharan Africa
Aidt, Toke; Leon, Gabriel - 2014
We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …
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Suffrage, labour markets and coalitions in colonial virginia
Nikolova, Elena; Nikolova, Milena - 2016
We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative and econometric analysis of unique data on franchise restrictions. First, we hold that suffrage changes reflected labour market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia’s liberal institutions...
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