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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values

Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 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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Income, civic participation and achieving greater democracy

Levin-Waldman, Oren M. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 43 (2013) C, pp. 83-92

autonomy. Democracy also assumes that individuals will participate in the affairs of their community, i.e. there will be civic …

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Democracy and economic outcomes: Evidence from the superstars of modern art

Hellmanzik, Christiane - In: European Journal of Political Economy 30 (2013) C, pp. 58-69

is a statistically significant, positive link between the level of democracy and the value of artistic output. Moreover …, we find that democracy has a significant positive impact both on the density of superstar painters and the collective …

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Ceilings and Floors

Goertz, Gary; Hak, Tony; Dul, Jan - In: Sociological Methods & Research 42 (2013) 1, pp. 3-40

and floor hypotheses relating gross domestic product/capita and democracy. …

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Unexpected Bedfellows: The GATT, the WTO, and Some Democratic Rights

Aaronson, Susan Ariel; Abouharb, M. Rodwan - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2010

The WTO system has democratic rights spillovers. In this paper, we show how GATT and WTO rules induce memberstates to advance several democratic rights: specifically political participation, due process and access toinformation. We use qualitative and quantitative tools to examine this process....

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Political system in democracies and government failure

Borkowska, Bozena - In: Ekonomia i Prawo VI/2010 (2010), pp. 119-128

The political economy literature presents a number of models that explain how political institutions influence economic outcomes. The aim of this paper is presentation of theoretical and empirical research that explain fiscal policy outcomes under proportional and majoritarian elections, and...

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Cum poate democratia sa suporte adevarul? Despre parrhêsia politica - How can democracy to bear the truth? Problematization of Parrhêsia (Romanian version)

ARGHIRE, Cristiana - In: Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - … 1 (2011) February, pp. 249-265

democracy and truth in the form of the relationship between philosophy and politics. Philosophy is to tell the truth, but not …

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Toward Electoral Security: Experiences from KwaZulu-Natal

Höglund, Kristine; Jarstad, Anna K. - In: Africa Spectrum 46 (2011) 1, pp. 33-59

There is a growing recognition of the dangers of electoral violence. Yet, the theoretical foundation for systematic research and for adequate policy is still underdeveloped. This article aims to develop the theoretical understandings of strategies to manage and prevent electoral violence. This...

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Does Democratization Spur Growth? An Examination over Time and Space

Assiotis, Andreas - University of Cyprus Department of Economics - 2013

long run effects of democracy upon growth to differ since effects during political transitions need not coincide with those … effects of democracy upon economic growth need not be the same across countries, either. Using annual, cross-county data from …. Finally, some support though mixed suggests that democracy’s ability to mitigate effects of ethnic heterogeneity provides a …

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Education policy in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents.

Ciriani, Stephane - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2007) 1, pp. 1-7

This paper studies the impact of public intervention on educationfinance and economic growth in general equilibrium. I use a 3period overlapping generations model where human capitalinvestment is risky and individuals are heterogeneous with respectto their learning abilities. I show that...

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