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Origins and Outcomes of Electoral Institutions in African Hybrid Regimes: A Comparative Perspective

Stroh, Alexander; Elischer, Sebastian; Erdmann, Gero - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012

In the early 1990s most African countries carried out extensive reforms of their electoral regimes. Adopting a historical institutionalist approach, this paper critically examines the role of institutional path dependence in accounting for the setup of six African electoral regimes. For this...

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Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the “Arab Spring”

Beck, Martin; Hüser, Simone - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012

This article deals with the Arab Spring as a process of deep political change in the Arab world, previously the only major world area where authoritarianism persisted unchallenged for decades. While in various countries of the Arab world mass protests in 2011 forced rulers to resign, other...

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When does more aid imply less democracy? An empirical examination

Kalyvitis, Sarantis; Vlachaki, Irene - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 1, pp. 132-146

Foreign aid flows have increased considerably during the last decades, targeting, apart from development objectives, goals related to democracy. In this paper we investigate whether aid has affected the political regime of recipient countries. To this end, we use annual data on Net Official...

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Trajectories of Regime Transformation and Types of Stateness in Post-Communist Countries

Melville, Andrei; Mironyuk, Mikhail; Stukal, Denis - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2012

importance of structural and procedural (actor-oriented) factors in democratization and democratic consolidation, we address the …

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Political origins of financial structure

Bhattacharyya, Sambit - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 4, pp. 979-994

democratization on financial structure in a sample of 96 countries covering the period 1970–2005. Democratization here corresponds to … the event of becoming a democracy. We find that democratization leads to a more market-based financial system. Democratic …

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Uncertainty, informational spillovers and policy reform: A gravity model approach

Fidrmuc, Jan; Karaja, Elira - In: European Journal of Political Economy 32 (2013) C, pp. 182-192

Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves can be driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of similar countries. We motivate this hypothesis with a simple...

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The AKP story: Turkey’s bumpy reform path towards the European Union

Mcdonald, Deniz Bingol - In: Society and Economy 33 (2011) December, pp. 525-542

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government between 2002 and 2007 managed to accomplish unprecedented economic reforms, maintaining 8% growth and passed legislation to change Turkey into a more democratic country in line with the Copenhagen political conditions. After being rewarded with...

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Political Firms, Public Procurement, and the Democratization Process

Straub, Stéphane - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

replace firms connected to the previous regime. This demonstrates that the potential economic benefits of democratization are …

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Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption

Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2014

We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general … accelerate technology adoption if coupled with democratization but may lead to a slowdown if these regime changes are imbalanced … variation and the heterogenous timing of openness and democratization. The results document the existence of a positive …

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Democratization and Civil Liberties: The Role of Violence During the Transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of … different groups may engage in violent conflict in order to become the ruler predicts a crucial role of the democratization … scenario. A peaceful democratization leads to democracies with a high degree of civil liberties, reflecting a social contract …

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