Search Results - subject:"Modernization hypothesis"

Does Demography Determine Democratic Attitudes?

Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022

This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects democratic attitudes in Western democracies. Using individual survey responses, the empirical analysis disentangles age from cohort patterns and other contemporaneous economic and political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The...

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Does Demography Determine Democratic Attitudes?

Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022

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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?

Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022

This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects attitudes toward democracy and policy preferences. The empirical analysis disentangles age effects from cohort effects and separates their role from economic and political factors that shape political preferences in a given period, using...

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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?

Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022 - Original version: January 2022, this version: September 2022

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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?

Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022

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The global gender gap in labor income

Gebrewolde, Tewodros Makonnen; Rockey, James - 2017

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The role of middle class in democratic diffusion

Chun, Natalie; Hasan, Rana; Rahman, Mohammad Habibur; … - 2015

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Should the Modernization Hypothesis Survive Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared? Some More Evidence

Faria, Hugo J.; Montesinos-Yufa, Hugo M.; Morales, Daniel R. - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 1, pp. 17-36

An important dimension of the “modernization hypothesis” is the claim that there is a long-run positive relation … between socio-economic development and political democracy. This research strand of the modernization hypothesis, however, has …, we find, in congruence with the modernization hypothesis, that income and education predict democracy. …

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Capital Inflow and Economic Growth Nexus in Nigeria: The Role of Trade Openness

Saibu, Olufemi - In: Acta Universitatis Danubius. OEconomica (2014) 6(6), pp. 99-113

foreign capital inflow/growth nexus in Nigeria. This is with a view to testing modernization hypothesis in Nigeria. The paper … modernization hypothesis that capital inflow and trade policy are complementary and growth enhancing. The paper concluded that trade …

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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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