Search Results - subject:"Critical junctures"

Callen, Michael; Weigel, Jonathan; Yuchtman, Noam - 2023

economic growth, but the "critical junctures" in which institutions can change are not precisely defined. For example, such … experiments to identify causal effects. We argue that critical junctures are identifiable in real-time as moments when there … to institutions, i.e., the "fundamental rules of the game"; (ii) are real-time studies of plausible critical junctures …

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Experiments about institutions

Callen, Michael; Weigel, Jonathan; Yuchtman, Noam - 2023

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Back to the future in EU social policy? : endogenous critical junctures and the case of the European Pillar of Social Rights

Carella, Beatrice; Graziano, Paolo - In: Journal of common market studies : JCMS 60 (2022) 2, pp. 374-390

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Trinity of change agency : connecting agency and structure in studies of regional development

Grillitsch, Markus; Rekers, Josephine; Sotarauta, Markku - 2019

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New Paths for Third-Sector Institutions in a Welfare State in Crisis: The Case of Portugal

Ferreira, Sílvia - In: Nonprofit Policy Forum 6 (2015) 2, pp. 213-241

Abstract This article describes the recent changes in the political, cultural and socioeconomic environment of the third sector (TS) in Portugal in the context of crisis and structural adjustment. Belatedly, when compared to many other countries, an overall sector is being structured in...

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Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa

Wantchekon, Leonard; Garcia-Ponce, Omar - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013

We show that current levels of democracy in Africa are linked to the nature of its independence movements. Using different measures of political regimes and historical data on anti-colonial movements, we find that countries that experienced rural insurgencies tend to have autocratic regimes,...

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Income, democracy, and critical junctures

Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....

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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Can Historical Institutionalism be Applied to Political Regime Development in Africa?

Erdmann, Gero; Elischer, Sebastian; Stroh, Alexander - 2011

Historical institutionalism has been used to explain the emergence of democracy and dictatorship in various regions of the world, but not applied to political development in Africa. Based on the recently refined concepts of historical institutionalism, the aim of this study is to provide a...

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Dynamique des politiques cotonnières au Bénin : une lecture par la dépendance de sentier

Kpade, Patrice Cokou; Boinon, Jean-Pierre - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2011

S'interrogeant sur la dynamique d'évolution sur la longue période des différentes politiques cotonnières au Dahomey (devenu Bénin en 1975), cet article mobilise l'approche théorique de dépendance de sentier (path dependence ) pour ressortir les dynamiques institutionnelles...

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