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Elections and (mis)reporting of COVID-19 mortality

Kpeli, Parrendah Adwoa; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, … - 2024

We investigate the effect of elections on underreporting COVID-19 mortality, measured as the difference between excess mortality and official statistics. Our identification strategy takes advantage of a natural experiment of the unanticipated onset of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the...

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Collective action problems and direct democracy : an analysis of Georgia's 2010 trauma care funding amendment

Hall, Joshua C.; Horpedahl, Jeremy; Stephenson, E. Frank - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 2, pp. 1-9

In 2010, Georgians voted on a proposed constitutional amendment that would have increased motor vehicle licensing fees by USD 10 with the proceeds dedicated to maintaining and expanding the state's trauma care centers. This paper examines voter support for the referendum across counties and...

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Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy

Graeber, Daniel; Meister, Lorenz; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023

-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders notably increased satisfaction with democracy and shifted political support towards … centrist parties. Stay-at-home orders increased satisfaction with democracy most among individuals who had been exposed to the … restrictive state interventions. Moreover, we find suggestive evidence that satisfaction with democracy increases more among …

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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 …

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The democratic window of opportunity : evidence from riots in sub-Saharan Africa

Aidt, Toke; Leon, Gabriel - 2014

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

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Suffrage, labour markets and coalitions in colonial virginia

Nikolova, Elena; Nikolova, Milena - 2016

We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative and econometric analysis of unique data on franchise restrictions. First, we hold that suffrage changes reflected labour market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia’s liberal institutions...

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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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Political inclusion and democracy in Africa : some empirical evidence

Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021

This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...

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(Successful) democracies breed their own support

Acemoglu, Daron; Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; … - 2021

and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic … and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are …

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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980-2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …

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