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On the overthrow or endurance of kings
Tridimas, George - In: Constitutional political economy 27 (2016) 1, pp. 41-65
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Constitutional monarchy as power sharing
Tridimas, George - In: Constitutional political economy 32 (2021) 4, pp. 431-461
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How democracy was achieved
Tridimas, George - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 4, pp. 651-658
In ‘Perfecting Parliament’ Roger Congleton applies the rational choice framework to explain two attributes of the democratization of the West from the medieval times to the early twentieth century, first the shift of policy making authority from the king to the parliament and second the...
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The Strategic of Conflict in Colombia
Estrada, Fernando - 2010
This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept … of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling/ Nozic/Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict …
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Democracy Under the Tsars? The Case of the Zemstvo
Nafziger, Steven - Economics Department, Williams College - 2008
The emancipation of the serfs is often viewed as watershed moment in 19th-century Russian history. However, this reform was accompanied by numerous others measures aimed at modernizing the Tsarist economy and society. Among these "Great Reforms" was the creation of a new institution of local...
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Stagnation and Change in Islamic History
Cosgel, Metin - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2007
There appear to be two seemingly contradictory images of economic change in the Islamic World and mixed evidence on whether Islamic societies have been open or conservative against modern ideas, technological advancements, and legal developments. Whereas a conservative attitude has been dominant...
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Long Live the Doge? Death as a Term Limit on Venetian Chief Executives
Smith, Daniel J. - 2020
Can an electorate use the projected life expectancy of a lifetime-appointed executive to enforce binding, informal term limits? Informal term limits, based on the life expectancy of an executive candidate at election, would enable an electorate to exercise discretion in adjusting tenure lengths...
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Sovereign Risk Management : A Rationalist Explanation of Putin's and Trump's Risk Taking Behavior and Its Consequences
Lehrbass, Frank - 2017
Firstly, two seemingly unrelated topics of Russian politics are investigated. It is shown that under expected utility maximization the assumptions of an unbiased oil forward market and a risk-acceptant attitude (strictly convex utility function) of president Putin are sufficient to explain...
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Why Some Democracies are Headed by a Monarch?
Tridimas, George - 2014
liberal opposition to share office rents, while the alternative to the negotiation is a violent conflict that ends with either … deposition of the monarchy or absolute rule by the monarch. A model of conflict between the king and the liberal opposition is … explored where conflict for office rents is a costly contest with probabilistic outcomes and results in a reduction of …
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From Royal to Parliamentary Rule Without Revolution, Credible Commitments and the Market for Power within Divided Governments
Congleton, Roger D. - 2009
The domain of possible power assignments within a multicameral government is multidimensional and essentially continuous. This allows policymaking authority to be divided in many ways and also allows constitutional exchange to take place along many margins of power. This internal market for...
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