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Electoral Rules, Forms of Government and Redistributive Policy : Evidence from Agriculture and Food Policies
Olper, Alessandro; Raimondi, Valentina - 2012
We investigate the effect of electoral rules and forms of government on public policy outcomes using a new dataset on agriculture and food policies from 74 countries over the 1960-2005 period. Using both cross-sectional and panel data analyses we find robust evidence that the specific nature of...
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The political costs of oil price shocks
Arezki, Rabah; Djankov, Simeon; Nguyen, Ha; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022
We explore the effect of oil import price shocks on political outcomes using a worldwide dataset on elections of chief executives. Oil import price shocks cause a reduction in the odds of reelection of incumbents, an increase in media chatter about fuel prices, and an increase in non-violent...
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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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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). … Arbeitslosenrate (Kapitel 5) sowie der Dynamik von Demokratie und Einkommen (Kapitel 6). …
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World Price Shocks, Income, and Democratization
Zissimos, Ben - 2021
This paper shows how a world price shock can increase the likelihood that democratization must be used to resolve the … threat of revolution. Initially, a ruling elite may be able to use trade policy to maintain political stability. But a world … resolve. Because the world price shock may also reduce average incomes, the model provides a way to understand why the level …
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Sunlight Disinfects? Free Media in Weak Democracies
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2018
Free media may not favor political accountability when other democratic institutions are weak, and may even bring undesirable unintended consequences. We propose a simple model in which candidates running for office may engage in coercion to obtain votes. A media scandal exposing these...
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Democracy and COVID-19 Outcomes Revisited
Matuszak, Piotr - 2021
outcomes of democracy by using excess mortality as a measure of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing this measure …
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Democracy and COVID-19 outcomes
Karabulut, Gokhan; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2021
this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying the association with five different democracy measures, this study …
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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...
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Inequality, macroeconomic performance and political polarization : a panel analysis of 20 advanced democracies
Proaño Acosta, Christian; Peña, Juan Carlos; … - 2020
This paper investigates the macroeconomic and social determinants of voting behavior, and especially of political polarization, in 20 advanced countries using annual data ranging from 1970 to 2016 and covering 291 parliamentary elections. Using a panel estimation approach and rolling...
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