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Securing personal freedom through institutions: the role of electoral democracy and judicial independence
Berggren, Niclas; Gutmann, Jerg - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 49 (2020) 2, pp. 165-186
We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal freedom. While judicial … independence is positively and robustly related to personal freedom in all its forms, electoral democracy displays a robust …
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The effect of emigration on home-country political institutions
Lodigiani, Elisabetta - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
substantially during the last decades. At the same time, the quality of institutions in developing countries has also improved. The … findings indicate that emigration to institutionally developed countries induces a positive effect on home-country institutions. …
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Political culture still divided 25 years after reunification?
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny; Kroh, Martin - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 37, pp. 481-491
In 1990, during reunification, West German democratic institutions and the existing political party system were …
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Geteilte politische Kultur auch 25 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung?
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny; Kroh, Martin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 37, pp. 803-814
In 1990, during reunification, West German democratic institutions and the existing political party system were …
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Preferences for redistribution in Europe
Olivera, Javier - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 14, pp. 1-18
This paper uses pseudo panel techniques and a fixed effects estimator to analyse the determinants of preferences for redistribution in 34 European countries over the period 2002-2012. The data is drawn from the six available waves of the European Social Survey. The main result is that changes in...
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Das Phänomen »Populismus«: Ursachen und Gegenrezepte
Berthold, Norbert; Winkler, Adalbert; Becker, Sascha O.; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 70 (2017) 12, pp. 3-21
politische Gründe, da die repräsentative Demokratie in einer tiefen Vertrauenskrise stecke und Populisten von den funktionalen …
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Electoral systems and income inequality: a tale of political equality
Zuazu, Izaskun - In: Empirical Economics 63 (2021) 2, pp. 793-819
estimates fail to significantly associate democracy with income inequality, and find other political institutions to …The link between democracy and within-country income inequality remains an unresolved quest in the literature of …
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Political inequality, political participation, and support for populist parties
Kellermann, Kim Leonie - In: Constitutional Political Economy 33 (2021) 4, pp. 461-482
We theoretically investigate how political abstention among certain social groups encourages populist parties to enter the political stage, trying to absorb inactive voters. We design a two-stage game with two established parties and n voters who jointly determine a taxation policy. The...
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How the planned perversion of democracy generated accelerating inequalities
Parguez, Alain - In: Journal of Contemporary Economic and Business Issues 3 (2016) 2, pp. 49-59
One cannot doubt the ubiquitous lack of hope and confidence in the so-called democratic institutions by the large … majority of people. The fundamental reason thereof is the blatant contradiction between the principle of democracy, promoting … Europe, of the pre-revolution era2. What is at stake is to understand the paramount failure of political institutions to meet …
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Political leadership and the quality of public goods and services: Does religion matter?
Prinz, Aloys L.; Sander, Christian J. - In: Economics of Governance 21 (2020) 4, pp. 299-334
Despite some indications to the contrary, religion still plays an important role in contemporary society. In this paper, the association between religion and the quality of public goods and services, measured by the so-called “delivery quality” index of the Worldwide Governance Indicators...
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