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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …

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Securing personal freedom through institutions : the role of electoral democracy and judicial independence

Berggren, Niclas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2019

freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies rule, suggest that electoral democracy may not be the … provide a firmer foundation. We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal …

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Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions : evidence from Indonesia's election reform

Al Izzati, Ridho; Dartanto, Teguh; Suryadarma, Daniel; … - 2024

People's trust in state and political institutions is a key foundation of a well-functioning economy. We estimate the impact of direct elections on people's trust in state and political institutions, using a major political reform in Indonesia as the source of exogenous variation. Prior to 2005,...

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Governance and group conflict

Koelle, Felix - 2020 - This version: January 2020

Many situations in the social and economic life are characterized by rivalry and con ict between two or more competing groups. Warfare, socio-political con icts, political elections, lobbying, and R&D competitions are all examples of inter-group con icts in which groups spend scarce and costly...

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Policy reforms and the amount of checks & balances

Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Wagner, Julia - 2022

We examine how democracies choose their amount of checks and balances (C&B). For this purpose, we consider a simple model of political competition with costly policy reforms. The cost of a marginal reform is determined endogenously at the constitutional phase-i.e. before policies are...

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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

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Favoritism by the governing elite

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023

In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We manually collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining...

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Can worker codetermination stabilize democracies? : works councils and satisfaction with democracy in Germany

Pfeifer, Christian - 2023 - Date of this version: 11.5.2023

satisfied with the democracy as it exists in Germany than workers in firms without such a participatory workplace institution …

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The puzzling practice of paying "cash for votes"

Murugesan, Anand; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2023

exchange for their votes. That practice undermines the functioning of democracy but is pervasive in many parts of the world …

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Market democracy, rising populism, and contemporary ordoliberalism

Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2024

Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by phenomena like globalization and digitization producing winners and losers in economic terms. Growing feelings of alienation from the market-democratic system and the perceived...

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