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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755330
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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values
Ticchi, Davide - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080139
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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? : mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017
This paper starts with the observation that almost all military dictatorships that democratize become presidential democracies. I hypothesize that military interests are able to coordinate on status-preserving institutional change prior to democratization and therefore prefer political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763058
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Coups and economic crises
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2022
from both democracy and military dictatorship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013490611
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Central bank independence : a rigged debate based on false politics and economics
Palley, Thomas I. - 2019
The case for central bank independence is built on an intellectual two-step. Step one argues there is a problem of inflation prone government. Step two argues independence is the solution to that problem. This paper challenges that case and shows it is based on false politics and economics. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104487
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A Theory of Trade Policy Under Dictatorship and Democratization
Zissimos, Ben - 2017
is to show how a dictatorship can manipulate trade policy to maintain its grip on power in the face of permanent world …This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945109
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218461
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Inequality and the Instability of Polity and Policy
Dutt, Pushan; Mitra, Devashish - 2007
In this paper, we create alternative measures of political instability, which capture movements only from dictatorship … to democracy and vice versa (consistent with the recent theoretical work by Acemoglu and Robinson) but, unlike older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064089
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Using Machine Learning for Measuring Democracy : An Update
Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update … improvements are particularly notable: First, we produce a continuous and a dichotomous version of the Machine Learning democracy … conceptualization of the Machine Learning Index. Finally, we largely expand the data coverage by providing democracy indicators for 186 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238610
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Using Machine Learning for Measuring Democracy : An Update
Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update … improvements are particularly notable: First, we produce a continuous and a dichotomous version of the Machine Learning democracy … conceptualization of the Machine Learning Index. Finally, we largely expand the data coverage by providing democracy indicators for 186 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244246