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A Causal Panorama of Cross-Country Human Development
Mayer-Foulkes, David - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2011
, there is a transition towards more democracy and less autocracy. However, at very low HDI levels income per capita decreased … democracy, and global governance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124106
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Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia’s break up
Costa-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126654
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Dictatorships (actually) redistribute more
Kammas, Pantelis; Sarantides, Vassilis - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2015
This paper seeks to examine the effect of political regimes on actual fiscal redistribution. We first use a simplified theoretical framework which allows us to formalize the testable implications of the relevant literature. Subsequently, employing data on Gini coefficients before and after taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011127950
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Public Education and Democracy in a Simple Model of Persistent Inequality
Koutentakis, Franciscos - Department of Economics, University of Crete - 2012
. This implies a majority of agents supporting the introduction of public education suggesting that democracy is necessary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129901
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Pluralism and sustainable development
Söderbaum, Peter - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 3 (2012) 1, pp. 23-39
for instance in relation to sustainability issues. In addition to the 'purpose' argument, there is an 'ideology-democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130218
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Pluralism and democracy in political economics
Söderbaum, Peter; Brown, Judy - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 3, pp. 240-243
Until about 1870 economics was referred to as 'political economics' and it is here argued that it was a mistake to abandon this terminology. Mainstream neoclassical economics is specific in scientific and conceptual terms but also in ideological terms. Similarly, other theoretical perspectives...
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Essays on India’s Political Economy    
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
corruption, citizenship, effective delivery of public goods and services, taxation and the evolution of democracy at different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130479
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The Portuguese Republic at One Hundred
Herr, Richard; Costa Pinto, António - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2012
In October 1910 a revolution drove out the king of Portugal and established the Portuguese Republic. In 1926 a military coup overthrew the parliamentary system and led to the authoritarian regime of Salazar, but in April 1974 a revolution led by the military restored the parliamentary republic....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130514
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Nepal: Elusive Democracy and Uncertain Political System
Baral, Lok Raj - eSocialSciences - 2012
Persistence and breakdowns of democracy are the dominant features of Nepali politics.Democracy continues to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133112
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Journalism in Democracies During Times of War: Examining the Role of Indian and US Media
Sharma, Aradhana - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper examines the larger issue of how a ‘free’ media performs during times of war with particular reference to US and India using case studies. It focuses on ‘national security’ becoming a major pivot around which the media discourse is shaped. How the media...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133140