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Inequality in democracy: Insights from an empirical analysis of political dynasties in the 15th Philippine Congress
Beja Jr, Edsel; Mendoza, Ronald U.; Venida, Victor S.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70 percent of jurisdiction-based...
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Demographic Transition and Rise of Modern Representative Democracy
Namasaka, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
liberalisation, studies on the determinants of democracy have often overlooked the influence of demographic factors such as … stability of liberal democracy. It is not surprising, noting the recent revolutions such as the Arab spring and the Egyptian … authoritarian regimes or sustain liberal democracies as a result of youth-led democracy movements as witnessed in Costa Rica, India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114535
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Endowments, power, and democracy: Political economy of multilateral commitments on trade in services
Roy, Martin - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2010
Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). I develop an argument suggesting how levels of democracy and factor endowments are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114990
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Endowments, power, and democracy: Political economy of multilateral commitments on trade in services
Roy, Martin - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2009
). The argument, which is supported by empirical analysis, suggests that democracy, relative power, relative endowments, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115071
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Crisis bargaining, domestic opposition, and tragic wars
Arena, Philip - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 27 (2015) 1, pp. 108-131
Why do democracies sometimes fight long, politically divisive wars that end poorly? I argue that electoral accountability, induced by party competition, can sometimes promote this and other tragic outcomes. To demonstrate this, I analyze a bargaining model in which one state is conceived of as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161074
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A Replication of “Corruption and Elections
Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad - In: Public Finance Review 43 (2015) 2, pp. 143-154
Using cross-national panel data, Krause and Méndez recently studied whether voters retract support from political candidates who they think are corrupt. Their main finding is that corruption in public office is effectively punished by voters. Given the well-known issues with adequately...
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In a democracy, what should a healthcare system do? A dilemma for public policymakers
Oswald, Malcolm - In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 14 (2015) 1, pp. 23-52
answer: a healthcare system in a democracy should do as much good as possible, although sometimes we should sacrifice some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161088
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Sanfter Paternalismus, meritorische Güter, und der normative Individualismus
KirchgÄssner, Gebhard - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2012
Paternalism is an attempt to influence the decisions of individuals for their own benefit even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to be a contradiction to normative individualism which provides the general or ientation of our modern demo cracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism...
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Oil and Democracy
Cesari, Anna - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 126 (2014) 3, pp. 265-274
According to a wide literature, oil has a negative effect on the level of democracy because of induced economic and … an estimate of the oil-democracy demultiplier. Moreover, we obtain an indicator of the surplus/deficit of democracy …
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Working paper No. 240 Bloc – party Politics and Economic Outcomes. What Are the Effects of Local Parties?
Lakomaa, Erik; Korpi, Martin - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
In a much cited 2008 article, Per Pettersson-Lidbom uses regression discontinuity to test for Swedish party effects on economic policies such as municipal taxation, spending and employment. We reassess the issue using the same estimator as Pettersson-Lidbom but new data on all factual...
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