Search Results - subject:"Political Development"

Slavery, statehood, and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bezemer, Dirk Johan; Bolt, Jutta; Lensink, Robert - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 57 (2014), pp. 148-163

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Initial Factors Behind The Third Wave of Democratization

Papaioannou, Elias; Siourounis, Gregorios - Department of Economics, University of Peloponnese - 2007

We identify permanent democratic transitions during the Third Wave of Democratization and the nineties, when many former socialist countries moved towards representative rule. Using subjective political freedom indicators, electoral archives, and historical resources in 174 countries in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005636112

The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development from Monarchy to Democracy

Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent … respective owners (landlords, capitalists, and workers) to gain political power in the same sequence, shaping the political … development path from monarchy to oligarchy and .nally to democracy with full surage. When it is too costly for any group of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365197

The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development

Huang, Fali - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2006

This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent … respective owners (landlords, capitalists, and workers) to gain political powers in the same sequence, shaping the political … development path from monarchy to elite ruling and finally to full suffrage. When it is too costly for any group of factor owners …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005091210

The Economics of Young Democracies: Policies and Performance

Kapstein, Ethan; Converse, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Since the “third wave” of democratization began in 1974, nearly 100 states have adopted democratic forms of government, including, of course, most of the former Soviet bloc nations. Policy-makers in the west have expressed the hope that this democratic wave will extend even further, to the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622029

The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development

Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent … respective owners (landlords, capitalists, and workers) to gain political powers in the same sequence, shaping the political … development path from monarchy to elite ruling and finally to full suffrage. When it is too costly for any group of factor owners …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365249

The economic value of military connections in Turkey

Göktepe, Gökçe; Satyanath, Shanker - In: Public Choice 155 (2013) 3, pp. 531-552

Can financial connections to the military provide economic value in democratic environments? We address this question by studying whether firms in which the Turkish military had a controlling financial interest earned abnormally high stock returns on the Istanbul stock exchange. Our findings...

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The economic value of military connections in Turkey

Göktepe, Gökçe; Satyanath, Shanker - In: Public choice 155 (2013) 3/4, pp. 531-552

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Country level evaluation : Jamaica ; Final Report ; Volume I: Main Report

Watson, Mark Q. (contributor); … - ECO Consult - 2012

The evaluation covers the cooperation of the Commission of the European Union (EC) with Jamaica during the period 2002-2009, although it has also taken account of subsequent developments. It covers two EDF periods, the 9th EDF (2002-07) and the 10th EDF (2008-13). In addition, it covers FLEX,...

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New elites and their influence on entrepreneurial activity in Russia

Shurchkov, Olga - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 2, pp. 240-255

When Russia transitioned to a democratic institutional system in 1991, some of its regions remained under control of old Communist Party elites, while some fell into the hands of political newcomers (“new elites”). Using a new panel dataset spanning 71 of the Russian regions over the years...

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