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quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …
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This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...
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development in its different stages. Firstly, we identify the three development stages that prevailed in the world between 1996 … and 2011 according to the income classification of the World Bank corroborated with data from the UNDP Human Development …
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This survey documents the different arguments discussed in the academic literature on whether and how economic inequality and the emergence and stability of democratic political systems are connected. While early research in this domain has often focused on new and emerging democracies, this...
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In "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy", Robert D. Woodberry (2012) claims that the emergence of stable … democracies around the world was influenced by conversionary Protestantism. While Woodberry's historical analysis is exhaustive … alternative democracy measures and extend the time period over which the democracy measures are averaged. These two simple …
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Although the application of the conceptual and analytical framework of economics to the study of populism is still in its infancy, great advances have been made in recent years. This paper reviews some key contributions behind this progress. When analyzing populism, economists face two...
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