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A Political Theory of Russian Orthodoxy : Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013
In this paper, I test the effects of religious norms on the provision of public goods. My evidence is drawn from public goods experiments that I ran with regional bureaucrats in Tomsk and Novosibirsk, Russia. I introduce three treatments, which I define as degrees of Eastern Orthodox...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081362
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Attitude to the National Leader Through the Lenses of Investment Climate Assessment : The Case of Russia
Yakovlev, Andrei A. - 2015
initiator of business climate reform improves assessments of the business climate change only slightly. However, the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015259
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Political Networks Across the Globe
Commander, Simon John - 2020
Political networks are an important feature of the political and economic landscape of countries. Despite their ubiquity and significance, information on such networks has proven hard to collect due to a pervasive lack of transparency. However, with the advent of big data and artificial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837909
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Going Negative in Autocracy : A Field Experiment at the Moscow Mayoral Elections
Mironov, Maxim - 2020
Modern autocracies today hold elections but employ a number of tactics to control election outcomes. In response to unfairness of elections, opposition may organize negative campaign to persuade the electorate to vote against a regime candidate. The goal of this paper is to measure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838381
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The Separation and Reunification of Germany : Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839058
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The Separation and Reunification of Germany : Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839354
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A Formal Theory of Public Opinion in Conflicts
Petrova, Maria - 2008
This paper presents a theoretical model of interaction between a government and ordinary people over the issue of public support for war. I assume that interests of the government are not perfectly aligned with those of citizens, but public support is important for the success of war. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723960
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Political Constraints and Public Support for Market Reform
Desai, Raj M. - 2006
As concerns about reform fatigue in lower- and middle-income countries have become more widespread, so has the search … for ways of boosting support for market-oriented reforms. While the effects of political institutions on reform results … for markets. We find that political accountability boosts support for markets, but that this effect declines as the reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734538
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Distributive Politics under Institutionalized Authoritarianism : Evidence from China's Subnational Land Finance
Zhang, Qi - 2017
In this research we advance a theory to explain the distributive politics under an institutionalized single-party regime. We argue that the need of support from below, and therefore the need of support-buying, varies with the degree of power concentration among the authoritarian leadership....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959265
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Can Television Bring down a Dictator? Evidence from Chile's ‘No’ Campaign
González, Felipe - 2017
Can televised political advertising change voting behavior in elections held in authoritarian regimes? We study the case of Chile, where the opposition used television campaigns weeks before the election that ended the seventeen-year dictatorship known as the Pinochet regime. Using national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961719