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Autocracies have diverse records of economic growth. This paper provides a theory of endogenous coalition formation to … explain economic performance in autocracy. The nature of the ruling coalition that the autocrat relies on to rule the society … and extract rents affects the degree of inclusiveness of the autocracy's political and economic institutions that …
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retirement age widens. Conclusion: it would be easier to reduce these tensions in a rebuilt democracy but even an autocracy …This purpose of this paper is to analyze pension policy in an autocracy, using contemporary Hungary as a context. The …
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in the country. Furthermore, the results also reveal that democracy reinforces income inequalities promoting the impact …
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performance of democracy is rather independent of the circumstances. However, democracy leads to more redistribution in favor of …
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democratic accountability, but not by officials who are appointed by the ruler of a centralized autocracy. The ruler might prefer …
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Applying complexity theory tenets in analyzing findings from prior research on the impacts of democracy and … empirically tests algorithms on how democracy and authoritarianism impact QOL and happiness. The propositions include the … authoritarianism on countries' quality-of-life and happiness inform answering this question accurately. The study here constructs and …
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personalized around the founder President, his family and associates. This is reflected in the economics­ of the autocracy whereby …
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authoritarianism and relative underdevelopment to democracy and economic abundance in the last half century. This paper explores the …
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Partnership Agreements between the EU and African countries. Finally, the fifth chapter investigates whether democracy leads to …
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We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades. Using data from Colombia, we focus on a critical facet of democratization - the entry of new politicians. We show that initial levels of inequality...
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