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Social capital and political institutions: Evidence that democracy fosters trust

Ljunge, Martin - 2013

This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with ancestries from 115 countries are studied within 30 European countries. Comparing individuals born and residing in the same country, those whose father was born in a more...

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The Effect of Elections on Economic Growth: Results from a Natural Experiment in Indonesia

Moricz, Sara; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2014

Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from …

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Do Voters Dislike Liberalizing Reforms? New Evidence Using Data on Satisfaction with Democracy

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018

. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy … reforms and even be less satisfied with democracy as such. We test this hypothesis empirically, using panel data from 30 … European countries in the period 1993–2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform …

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Political Rents in a Non-Corrupt Democracy

Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - 2007

general public. In a democracy, electoral competition and information provided by the media may keep such rent extraction at … substantially reduce direct measures of legal political rents among local governments in a non-corrupt democracy (Sweden). …

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The Futile Quest for a Grand Explanation of Long-Run Government Expenditure

Durevall, Dick; Henrekson, Magnus - 2010

This paper carries out a critical reappraisal of the two contending theories purporting to explain long-run government …. Cointegration analysis is used to investigate the long-run relationships between government expenditure and GDP, focusing on sub … industrialization phase (before 1860), and in recent periods GDP only affects the government spending share when we control for …

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Female Representation but Male Rule? Party Competition and the Political Glass Ceiling

Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - 2012

A large literature has studied the context that affects women's numerical representation, but few have moved beyond numbers to study the drivers of a gender gap in political influence among elected politicians. Using panel data for the careers of 35.000 Swedish municipal politicians over six...

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Trust, welfare states and income equality: What causes what?

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2013

The cross-country correlation between social trust and income equality is well documented, but few studies examine the direction of causality. We show theoretically that by facilitating cooperation, trust may increase efficiency and lead to more equal outcomes, while the feedback from inequality...

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The Glass Ceiling in Politics: Formalization and Empirical Tests

Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - 2014

There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the glass ceiling for political organizations and builds on previous research to suggest four testable criteria. A glass ceiling exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are...

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Burying the bumblebee once and for all: Does big government hurt growth less in high-trust countries?

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2016

growth, as government size and growth are found to be negatively associated in several recent studies. We note that the …

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Who becomes a politican?

Dal Bó, Ernesto; Finan, Frederico S.; Folke, Olle; … - 2016

Can a democracy attract competent leaders, while attaining broad representation? Economic models suggest that free …

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