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quality of governance) and the degree of market segmentation (depending on the level of ethnic fractionalization). The model …
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This paper studies how divided government - arising when control of the government branches is split between parties - affects the polarization of the legislature and policy implementation. Using data on electoral and legislative outcomes for US states and a regression-discontinuity design, we...
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self-fulfilling multiple equilibria arise. I analyze the implications of this fragility for the governance of the Eurozone …. I conclude that the new governance structure (ESM) does not sufficiently recognize this fragility. Some of the features … equilibria ; governance …
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We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, "disciplines" governments and improves governance. We … demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country's vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This … increased threat of capital flight can discipline governments and improve governance and welfare by placing countries in a …
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-central governance ; accommodating ; and competing …
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In a country with weak institutional constraints on the executive, the real power might belong to the government bureaucracy rather than to an autocratic leader. We combine the Aghion-Tirole definition of formal and real authority with the Barro-Ferejohn model of political agency to study the...
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Over 10 years ago, Feld and Voigt (2003) introduced the first indicator for objectively meas-uring the actual independence of the judiciary and demonstrated its utility in a large cross-section of countries. The indicator has been widely used, but also criticized. This paper pre-sents more...
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: extended institutional and governance quality, democracy, voice and accountability, a well functioning system of law and order … for a contagion effect. -- Assassinations ; rational choice ; governance ; democracy ; dictatorship ; deterrence …
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