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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? : mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes
Bjørnskov, Christian - In: Public choice 185 (2020) 1/2, pp. 21-43
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Economic development, democratic institutions, and repression in non-democratic regimes : theory and evidence
Kemnitz, Alexander; Roessler, Martin - 2017
, depending on whether it appears in the form of rises in income or in education: A higher income level reduces democracy, whereas … more education leads to both more democracy and more repression. These theoretical findings are corroborated by panel data …
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Coups and economic crises
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2022
from both democracy and military dictatorship. …
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Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
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Coups, regime transitions, and institutional change
Bennett, Daniel L.; Bjørnskov, Christian; Gohmann, … - 2019
Coups and regime transitions are events that typically are intended to change the basic institutional framework of a country. Which specific policies change and the consequences of these changes nevertheless remains largely unknown. Change after a coup or transition implies that some form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021629
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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? Mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017
democratization and therefore prefer political institutions with strong veto players. Parallel civilian interests conversely suffer … democratizations are partially planned while most democratization events from civilian autocracy are either unforeseen or poorly … planned. Exploring the characteristics of 111 democratization episodes between 1950 and 2015, I find a number of features …
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Democracy versus dictatorship? : the political determinants of growth episodes
Sen, Kunal; Pritchett, Lant; Kar, Sabyasachi; Raihan, Selim - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665415
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Making Autocracy Work
Besley, Timothy J.; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - 2008
One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of...
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Political Regimes and Economic Growth in Latin America
Albornoz, Facundo; Dutta, Jayasri - 2007
tries to identify the effect of democracy on economic prosperity, little work has been done to understand the determinants … of economic growth under democracy. This paper examines whether the determinants of economic growth in Latin America are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050291
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Classist Democracies
Roy, Jaideep - 2021
We study classist societies where the middle class fight over redistribution of public funds with the marginalized and over social policies with the elites. We show that such societies are often deprived of well-defined majoritarian preferences, underscoring the importance of the party system....
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