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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income

Dobler, Constanze - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fakultät … - 2009

institutions, geography, and integration on per capita income. Concerning theoretical reasoning, emphasis is on the emergence of … institutions and their effect on economic growth. However, institutions can appear in different shapes since political, legal, and …, a differentiation between formal and informal institutions is made. Informal institutions are defined as beliefs …

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The Impact of Institutions, Culture, and Religion on Per Capita Income

Dobler, Constanze - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik, … - 2009

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The role of freedom, growth and religion in the taste for revolution

Pezzini, Silvia; MacCulloch, Robert - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2003

A fundamental question about the determinants of civil conflict is the relative importanceof political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach toprovide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary tastes of130,000 people living in 61 nations...

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The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution

Pezzini, Silvia; MacCulloch, Robert - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

A fundamental question about the determinants of civil conflict is the relative importance of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary tastes of 130,000 people living in 61 nations...

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Autocracy and the public : mass revolts, winning coalitions, and policy control in dictatorships

Apolte, Thomas - 2015

Threats of mass revolts could effectively constrain a dictator's public policy if it were not for the collective-action problem. Mass revolts nevertheless happen, but they follow a stochastic pattern. We describe this pattern in a threshold model of collective action and integrate it into an...

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Determinants of revolt : evidence from survey and laboratory data

Abbink, Klaus (contributor); Pezzini, Silvia (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines determinants of revolutionary behaviour. We study the role of freedom of communication, repression of opposition and the government’s selfishness. Combining econometric analysis of survey data with a laboratory experiment, we analyse how these factors affect preferences for...

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Gordon Tullock's theory of dictatorship and revolution

Apolte, Thomas - 2015

We assess Gordon Tullock's work on dictatorship and revolutions using a common analytic framework that captures the dynamics of mutually reinforcing perceptions within a potentially rebelling subgroup of a population. We can reconstruct all of Tullock's central findings but we also find him...

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The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution

MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - 2002

A fundamental question about the determinants of civil conflict is the relative importance of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary tastes of 130,000 people living in 61 nations...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113209

The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution

MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - 2005

Property rights, whose security is often threatened by civil conflict, are a necessary condition for the establishment of a market economy. Yet a fundamental and unresolved empirical question is whether the lack of political and civil freedoms is one of the root causes of greater insecurity....

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Securing the Rule of Law Through Interpretive Pluralism : An Argument From Comparative Law

Stith, Richard - 2009

As the distinction between interpretation and politics diminishes, the need for pluralism in interpretation increases. The Article argues, first, that the rule of law requires that no one tribunal possess the power to subordinate a whole legal system to its politicized rule. The Article then...

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