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The UN Goldstone Report and retraction : an empirical investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
democracy score was some 55 percentage points less likely to vote in favor of the second of the two UN Goldstone resolutions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488128
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Direct democracy : chances and challenges
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015 - Extended written version, May 2015
the functioning of direct democracy. As a political system it only makes sense if there exists a continuous process and … not if only occasional single questions are brought to a referendum. Then, the relation between direct democracy and the … points that should be observed to safeguard the well-functioning of direct democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528966
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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?
Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001
thus supports the notion that there is a positive relationship between democracy and economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397998
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The role of constitutions on poverty : a cross-national investigation
Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - 2015
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488146
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Populism and civil society
Boeri, Tito; Mishra, Prachi; Papageorgiou, Chris; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038251
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Who got the brexit blues? : using a quasi-experiment to show the effect of brexit on subjective wellbeing in the uk
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017
We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775929
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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698819
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The role of direct democracy in the European Union
Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2003
discussion of the pros and cons of direct democracy, the ability of direct democracy to help creating a European demos is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511096
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Future European alliance : Europe as a flexible democracy
Frey, Bruno S.; Steuernagel, Armin; Friedrich, Jonas - 2018
A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919540
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Satisfaction with democracy and the environment in Western Europe : a panel analysis
Wagner, Alexander F. (contributor);  … - 2006
We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for …. -- satisfaction with democracy ; environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253466