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Resource Rents, Institutions and Violent Civil Conflicts

Elbadawi, Ibrahim Ahmed; Soto, Raimundo - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2013

Natural resources have been blamed for inducing slow growth and sparking civil conflicts and violence. This paper first develops a model to account for the hazard of armed civil conflicts as a manifestation of the natural resource curse which is mediated by the quality of both economic and...

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Resource Rents, Political Institutions and Economic Growth

Elbadawi, Ibrahim Ahmed; Soto, Raimundo - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2012

-rich Arab world to achieve sustained growth, the Arab spring should not only bring democracy, as badly needed as it is, but …

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Democracy and Education: Evidence from the Southern African Development Community

Bittencourt, Manoel - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014

In this paper I investigate whether democracy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has had any effect … Variables, eg the end of the cold war is one of the contemporaneous external sources of variation to democracy, to deal with … reverse causality in thin panels), suggest that democracy, and the better governance that tends to be associated with it, has …

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(English) Democracy and participation: the Delphi methodology (Italiano) Democrazia e partecipazione: la metodologia Delphi

Castellani, Tommaso; Valente, Adriana - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Popolazione e le Politiche … - 2012

discussion on the meaning and role of democracy. (Italiano) In questo lavoro viene analizzata la metodologia partecipata del …

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The Romanian political system – consequence of the evolution of the party system

NANU, Ilie Dan - In: Alma Mater University journal 7 (2014) 1, pp. 31-39

Romania's internal political development after 1989 was marked by structuring its own party system, and for a long time the state came to be regarded as an asset of the parties, developing a real phenomenon of " particracy " . The Romanian party system is the natural consequence of the voting...

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Inequality in democracies: Testing the classic democratic theory of redistribution

Pecoraro, Brandon - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 3, pp. 398-401

The classic democratic theory of redistribution claims that an increase in the mean-to-median (MM) income ratio causes a majority coalition in the electorate to collectively demand more redistribution. The functional dependence of redistribution on the MM income ratio is tested in parametric and...

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Economics Is Not All of Life

Emmett, Ross B. - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 144-152

I trace the arc of my thinking about political economy and Christian theology from my early interactions with the work of Richard Whately and Frank Knight to more recent economic and theological reflections on innovation. The general theme is that life is more than economics, despite the...

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Collusion, Competition and Democracy

Bartolini, Stefano - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 12 (2000) 1, pp. 33-65

In the first part of this work, published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics 11(4), I discussed the nature of competitive interaction as opposed to other types of social interaction such as conflict, negotiation and cooperation. I subsequently analysed the relationship which exists between...

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What is Political?

Warren, Mark E. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 11 (1999) 2, pp. 207-231

political world today than are most common conceptions, especially in light of new concerns with democracy and democratization …. Finally, I show how this conception illuminates our contemporary understandings of democracy. …

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The Political Economy of Development

Pourgerami, Abbas - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 3 (1991) 2, pp. 189-211

not constitute a `cruel choice' between economic development and political democracy. …

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