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Local Political Priorities during Tunisia's First Democratic Municipal Elections

Blackman, Alexandra; Clark, Julia; Sasmaz, Aytug - 2021

In May 2018, Tunisia held the country’s first democratic local elections to elect representatives to the country’s 350 municipal councils. Democratic consolidation depends, in part, on the development of municipal councils that can aggregate and process diverse societal interests at the...

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Democratization and Civic Capital

Guiso, Luigi; Pinotti, Paolo - In: The Oxford handbook of the Italian economy since unification. 2013

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The impact of democratic elections on taxation : quasi-experimental evidence from subnational Indonesia

Lewis, Blane D. - In: Economics letters 211 (2022), pp. 1-4

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Voting for Democracy : Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation

Kaplan, Ethan - 2019

This paper assesses if voting for democracy affects long-term electoral participation. We study the effects of … participating in Chile's 1988 plebiscite, which determined whether democracy would be reinstated after a 15-year long military … argue that the plebiscite contributed to the emergence of one party rule the twenty years following democratization …

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Are electoral coalitions harmful for democratic consolidation in Africa?

Resnick, Danielle - 2011

Electoral coalitions are becoming increasingly popular among opposition parties in Africa because they offer many advantages with respect to reducing party fragmentation and increasing incumbent turnovers. At the same time, however, they are often comprised of parties that are defined...