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How to understand, and deal with dictatorship: an economist's view
Wintrobe, Ronald - In: Economics of Governance 3 (2001) 1, pp. 35-58
stay in power? What determines the repressiveness of a regime? Which type of regime redistributes more, dictatorship or …This paper explains in simple English some of the main ideas about autocracy first developed elsewhere (e.g., in my … book, The Political Economy of Dictatorship (Cambridge University Press, 1998). I use rational choice theory to explain the …
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2015
genetic diversity across the globe has contributed to the contemporary variation in the degree of autocracy across countries. …
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
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HDR 2004 - Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so...
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Rethinking Governance : Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy
Kaufmann, Daniel - 2003
We review key issues in worldwide governance and present the latest findings related to empirical measurement in this field. We focus on key governance components, such as rule of law, voice and accountability, corruption control, and state capture by region and for selected countries. The...
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Far from Home : Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?
Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - 2003
Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics and performance of firms, we find that: i)...
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The Inequality of Influence
Hellman, Joel S.; Kaufmann, Daniel - 2003
This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...
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Seize the State, Seize the Day : State Capture, Corruption and Influence in Transition
Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - 2004
In a decade of transition, fear of a leviathan state is giving way to increased focus on oligarchs who "capture the state." In the capture economy, the policy and legal environment is shaped to the captor firm`s huge advantage, at the expense of the rest of the enterprise sector. This has major...
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The Inequality of Influence
Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003
This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407672
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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?
Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003
Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics and performance of firms, we find that: i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407674