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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how a wide range of measures of tolerance, considered from social and institutional perspective relate to growth in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of income shocks on household real consumption expenditure, taking into account the various informal coping strategies adopted by the households. Using Nigerian Household Panel Survey data for the year 2010/2011 and 2012/2013...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of left Brazilian political parties and partisan disruption on the homicide rate in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The authors use panel data for the states between the years 1980 and 2011. The database used is an unbalanced...
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Examines Gorbachev′s (1985‐1991) period of Soviet development as an exemplar of a self‐declared movement towards a more democratic and humane socialism. Gorbachev′s perestroika envisaged a fundamental structural and technological renovation of Soviet economy, reactivation of Soviet...
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rights and liberties to attract better FDI flows. The purpose of this paper is to test the linkage between democracy and FDI … 1977 to 2011. Findings The intuition the paper empirically provides how improvements in democracy have a significant … location. Originality/value This paper satisfies the established need to study of democracy and FDI flows link is necessary in …
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obtained results provide grounds for doubts in positive influence of democracy upon socio-economic processes, including upon … the level of perceptible corruption. This suggests that democracy facilitates dispersion of responsibility and alienation …
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beliefs in various areas of human activity, like war, religion, politics, athletics, etc. in a model. Then, by applying the … of democracy and institutions develop, in particular property rights, that foster economic development. We analyze this … for Bronze Age and Archaic Greece, as being the historical case where such a macroculture favorable to democracy and …
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. In a country if human rights are violated then the country cannot be developed and the democracy of that country becomes …
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In the present essay we examine whether and how sports affected the emergence of democracy as a political phenomenon in …, norms and beliefs in various areas of human activity, like athletics, war, politics, etc. Then, we proceed through a … values were “diffused” from athletics to the field of politics and played a key role to the emergence of democracy. …
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