Search Results - subject:"modernization theory"

Echoes from Mozambique : did the idea of high modernism vanish?

Buur, Lars; Jacob, Thabit - 2024

Mozambique has become a significant destination for a diverse portfolio of investments in mining, liquid natural gas, power plants, industrial complexes and large-scale agricultural schemes. Acquiring investments across sectors has re-emerged as a top national priority, though few of these...

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A comment on jumping the gun : how dictators got ahead of their subjects (2023)

Sen, Sharmi; Maitra, Adit; Cameron, Alistair - 2023

Instructions: Hariri & Wingender add new nuance to the traditional wisdom that economic modernisation is a path to democracy. They show that the diffusion of repressive, military technologies, causes a decline in the number of democratisations in the following years, and argue that this is...

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Non-Modernization : Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan - 2021

Modernization theory is a cornerstone of much of political science, despite the mounting evidence against its … outcome along the trajectory to the Despotic Leviathan. None of the three different paths we highlight support modernization … theory. Under the Absent Leviathan, there is no economic modernization. Under the Despotic Leviathan, economic growth …

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Non-Modernization : Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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Innowacyjność – polski problem rozwojowy : doganianie Zachodu w warunkach nieciągłości

Jędrzejczak, Grzegorz; Sterniczuk, Henryk - 2020

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Economic development, democratic institutions, and repression in non-democratic regimes: Theory and evidence

Kemnitz, Alexander; Roessler, Martin - 2017

This paper analyzes the utilization of repression and democratic institutions by a non-democratic government striving for political power and private rents. We find that economic development has different impacts on policy choices, depending on whether it appears in the form of rises in income...

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Steam democracy up! : industrialization-led opposition in Napoleonic plebiscites

Lacroix, Jean - 2017

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Economic development, democratic institutions, and repression in non-democratic regimes : theory and evidence

Kemnitz, Alexander; Rößler, Martin - 2017

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Modernization and discrete measures of democracy

Spiegel, Mark M; Benhabib, Jess; Corvalen, Alejandro - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2014

We reassess the empirical evidence for a positive relationship between income and democracy, commonly known as the “modernization hypothesis,” using discrete democracy measures. While discrete measures have been advocated in the literature, they pose estimation problems under fixed effects...

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The Performance of Melanesian Central Banks

Turner, Michael; Brown, Alistair - In: Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 2 (2013) 1, pp. 89-110

classic modernization theory and combination reporting analysis, this paper considers possible operational central bank …

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