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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China

Padro, Gerard; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we proxy with religious fractionalization. We first document religious composition and the introduction of village-level elections for a nearly nationally representative sample of...

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Democratization and Civic Capital

Guiso, Luigi; Pinotti, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We document a sharp reversal in electoral participation between the North and the South of Italy after the 1912 enfranchisement which extended voting rights from a limited élite to (almost) all adult males. When voting was restricted to the élite, electoral turnout was higher in the South but...

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Democratic Redistribution and Rule of the Majority

Corneo, Giacomo; Neher, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

quality of democracy. However, we detect a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

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Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany: 1919-33

Satyanath, Shanker; Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

democracy in interwar Germany by analyzing Nazi party entry rates in a cross-section of towns and cities. Before the Nazi Party … in Weimar Germany aided the rise of the Nazi movement that ultimately destroyed Germany’s first democracy. …

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Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence

Campante, Filipe; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimarães, Bernardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective...

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The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State

Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development. …

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Do Trade and Investment Flows Lead to Higher CO2 Emissions? Some Panel Estimation Results

Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - Indian Institute of Foreign Trade - 2013

Over the last decade cross-country trade and investment flows have increased considerably, which is often linked to climate change concerns. The present analysis attempts to understand the influence of trade and investment flows on CO2 emissions through panel data model estimation for a set of...

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Well-being, democracy, and the economic system : An empirical analysis

van der Lijn, N.J. - Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management - 1995

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Imperfect Information, Democracy, and Populism

Binswanger, Johannes; Prüfer, Jens - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

of imperfect information about how the world works. We compare indirect democracy to direct democracy and to delegation … of policy making to independent agents. We find that indirect democracy is often welfare maximizing. …

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When do Representative and Direct Democracies Lead to Similar Policy Choices?

Cukierman, A.; Spiegel, Y. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

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