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The UN Goldstone Report and retraction : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

democracy score was some 55 percentage points less likely to vote in favor of the second of the two UN Goldstone resolutions and …

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The roots of Islamist armed struggle, 1968 - 2007 : conference paper

Meierrieks, Daniel; Krieger, Tim - 2014

failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the …

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Democracy, financial openness, and global carbon dioxide emissions : heterogeneity across existing emission levels

You, Wan-hai; Zhu, Huiming; Yu, Keming; Peng, Cheng - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 66 (2015), pp. 189-207

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Military spending and democratisation

Brauner, Jennifer - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 18 (2012) 3, pp. 1-17

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Democracy and international conflict

Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016

During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...

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Democracy and growth : evidence of a new measurement

Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2015

We present a novel approach for measuring democracy based on Support Vector Machines, a mathematical algorithm for … pattern recognition. The Support Vector Machines Democracy Index (SVMDI) is continuously on the 0-1-interval and enables a … very detailed measurement of democracy for 188 countries between 1981 and 2011. Application of the SVMDI highlights a …

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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015

This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...

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What aspects of society affect the quality of life of a minority? : global evidence from the new Gay Happiness Index

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2015

There is great variation in views on and treatment of minorities such as gay men across the world. We are the first to … legal rights for gay men, GDP per capita, democracy and economic globalization tend to benefit gays, primarily by shaping …

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Corruption: what are the effects on government effectiveness? : empirical evidence considering developed and developing countries

Montes, G. C.; Paschoal, P. C. - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 1/3, pp. 146-150

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Democratic redistribution and rule of the majority

Corneo, Giacomo; Neher, Frank - 2014

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

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