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Securing personal freedom through institutions : the role of electoral democracy and judicial independence
Berggren, Niclas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2019
Personal freedom is highly valued by many and a central element of liberal political philosophy. Although personal freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994154
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Securing personal freedom through institutions : the role of electoral democracy and judicial independence
Berggren, Niclas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2019
Personal freedom is highly valued by many and a central element of liberal political philosophy. Although personal freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995261
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Lobbying for industrialization : theory and evidence
Veselov, Dmitriy; Yarkin, Alexander - 2024
Industrial policies, such as infrastructure investments and export tariffs, affect the allocation of labor and incomes … across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change … and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than 150 years of data on parliamentary petitions in USA and Britain, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014575605
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Lobbying for industrialization : theory and evidence
Veselov, Dmitriy; Yarkin, Alexander - 2024
Industrial policies, such as infrastructure investments and export tariffs, affect the allocation of labor and incomes … across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change … and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than 150 years of data on parliamentary petitions in USA and Britain, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557744
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Lobbying for industrialization : theory and evidence
Veselov, Dmitriy; Yarkin, Alexander - 2024
Industrial policies, such as infrastructure investments and export tariffs, affect the allocation of labor and incomes … across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change … and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than 150 years of data on parliamentary petitions in USA and Britain, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545117
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Searching for Keynes : an essay on the political economy of fiscal policy, with application to Canada, 1870-2000 - revised version
Winer, Stanley L.; Ferris, John Stephen - 2003
Keynes' General Theory (1936) is arguably one of the most important books of the twentieth century. His ideas for stabilizing the aggregate economy have profoundly influenced economic theory as well as popular opinion about what governments can and should do with respect to the business cycle....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509394
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Delayed Privatization
Pinotti, Paolo; Bortolotti, Bernardo - 2008
This paper studies the timing of privatization in 21 major developed economies in the 1977-2002 period. Duration analysis shows that political fragmentation plays a significant role in explaining government's decision to privatize: privatization is delayed longer in democracies characterized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217110
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What Makes Reforms Likely : Political Economy Determinants of Reforms in Latin America
Lora, Eduardo A.; Olivera, Mauricio - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to test the main hypotheses of the recent theoretical literature on the political economy of reform for the case of the Latin American countries between 1985 and 1995. The paper first reviews the literature and extracts the main testable hypotheses. Then, a system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069921
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On the Politics of the Regulatory Reform : Econometric Evidence from the OECD Countries
Duso, Tomaso - 2003
This paper empirically investigates contrasting views on the politics of economic policy. Merging different databases, we test various predictions coming form different strands of literature, with the aim of explaining the cross-sectional and temporal variation in the degree of regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074592
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The conservation multiplier
Harstad, Bård - 2020
Every government that controls an exhaustible resource must decide whether to exploit it or to conserve and thereby let the subsequent government decide whether to exploit or conserve. This paper develops a theory of this situation and shows when a small probability that some future government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213175