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Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? To answer this question, we collect data for 173 countries between 1968 and 2014. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the global patterns of U.S. military aid, we provide causal estimates of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism. We...
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giving participants the possibility to choose which institution to adopt, we find that democracy is the by far most popular …
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The paper investigates the effect of local electoral rules on the political participation of the residents, as reflected in voter turnout. It focuses on Italy, where municipal voting schemes are differentiated by the size of the city: a single ballot system applies to municipalities with less...
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performance of market coordination crucially depends on the quality of property rights as a bundle of several acting rights. Since acting rights can be created, changed or abandoned within the political system, the scopes of political decision making processes have a deep impact on the quality...
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The success of Mr Modi's government is much more than a domestic issue; it is a fundamental challenge for democracy …. India is not only the biggest democracy in the World; India is the only significant example of a XXth century born nation … that never knew any other form of government. Nothing is settled regarding democracy in our age. One thing is however …
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