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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Cervellati, Matteo - 2012

democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

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Financial Liberalization and Democracy : The Role of Reform Reversals

Campos, Nauro - 2009

partial or captured democracy. We provide as well econometric support showing that even when de facto is modelled as a …

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Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior

Baez, Javier E. - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA), on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification we use discontinuities in program eligibility and variation in program enrollment across voting booths....

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Income Changes Do Not Influence Political Participation : Evidence from Comparative Panel Data

Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021

latent-growth-curve modeling based on household panels show that participatory inequality by parental income is already large …

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Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes Toward Immigration

Avdeenko, Alexandra - 2015

This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...

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Family and Politics : Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Siedler, Thomas - 2021

Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right-wing attitudes and xenophobia. Estimates from three different...

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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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The Political U : New Evidence on Democracy and Income

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

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The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy : Alternative Representations of Technological Change

Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … growth. Credit guarantee is one of the most significant positive links between economic growth and democracy. The marginal …

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Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe : A Panel Analysis

Wagner, Alexander F. - 2006

We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for …

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