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The agricultural and the democratic transitions: causality and the roundup model

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2009

Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We confirm that this conventional wisdom is strongly supported by the data. Long-run development (in income) also causes a large increase in democracy known as the...

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The agricultural and the democratic transitions: causality and the Roundup model

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2009

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What's pushing international tourism expenditures?

Vietze, Christoph - 2009

In this paper we discuss the determinants which contribute to outbound tourism expenditures. The aim is to show whether and how different socio-economic factors in countries of origin are responsible for the demand, to spent money for tourist activities in foreign countries. While we are able to...

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Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?

Sunde, Uwe - 2006

Economically highly developed countries are mostly democratic. But does this association constitute a causal relationship according to which democracy is a determinant of economic development? Or is it, conversely, economic development that paves the way for democratization? This paper gives an...

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Democracy in transition economies: Grease or sand in the wheels of growth?

Fidrmuc, Jan - In: EIB Papers 6 (2001) 2, pp. 24-40

After the communist regimes collapsed throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, they were replaced (at least initially) by relatively wide-ranging democracy. Measured by the indices of political freedom and civil liberties published by the Freedom House (see the Technical Annex for...

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¿Es el crecimiento económico suficiente para apoyar la democracia? Lecciones del caso chileno

Aravena Lavín, Pedro - 2010

Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Unterstützung der Demokratie in Chile im ökonomischen, institutionellen und politischen … Demokratie zu beantworten. Die Analyse zeigt drei bedeutsame Ergebnisse: 1) Obwohl das nationale Pro-Kopf-BIP keinen Einfluss auf … das Niveau der Unterstützung der Demokratie hat, zeigt sich in einer Analyse auf Individualebene gleichwohl, dass die …

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Are crises good for long-term growth? The role of political institutions

Cavallo, Alberto F.; Cavallo, Eduardo A. - 2008

This paper provides empirical evidence for the importance of institutions in determining the outcome of crises on long-term growth. Once unobserved country-specific effects and other sources of endogeneity are accounted for, political institutions affect growth through their interaction with...

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Voice and Growth: Was Churchill Right?

Lindert, Peter H. - 2002

The debate over whether political democracy is the least bad regime, as Churchill once said, remains unresolved because history has been ignored or misread, and because recent statistical studies have not chosen the right tests. Using too little historical information, and mistaking formal...

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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide: Recent longitudinal evidence

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...

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Our 9/11 of hope: Short essays on European democracy since 1989

Tassinari, Fabrizio (contributor) - 2010

This collection of short essays proceeds from an international conference organized by DIIS on 9th November 2009, the day of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The volume centers on the political, social, and economic implications of the revolutions of 1989 on European...

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