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Besley, Timothy; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - 2008

One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of...

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Coups, regime transitions, and institutional change

Bennett, Daniel L.; Bjørnskov, Christian; Gohmann, … - 2019

Coups and regime transitions are events that typically are intended to change the basic institutional framework of a country. Which specific policies change and the consequences of these changes nevertheless remains largely unknown. Change after a coup or transition implies that some form of...

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Elite selection in an autocracy : the career costs of political ties

Bielefeld, Leonie; Mohr, Cathrin - 2023

We study the selection of the political elite in an autocratic state. Using detailed CV data on potential politicians in the German Democratic Republic, we track and quantify the position of individuals in the state hierarchy over time and exploit exogenous connections between individuals that...

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Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values

Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …

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Religious Origins of Democracies and Dictatorships

Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013

provide a historical overview that designates the Jewish kibbutz as the collective of democracy and the Russian …-Orthodox monastery as the collective of dictatorship. Assuming a collectivist economy, I solve the radical government and modernization …

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Religious origins of democracies and dictatorships

Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013

democracy and the Russian-Orthodox monastery as the collective of dictatorship. Assuming a collectivist economy, I solve the …

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Portugal’s Plight : Social Democracy at Fault

Bragues, George - 2011

. Regarding the second, Portugal’s fate lends credence to the thesis advanced by Mises that democracy is susceptible to …

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Dimensions of Democracy in Slovakia : The Long View, 1918-2012

Hlavac, Marek - 2016

and their constituent indicators from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project. It analyzes the historical development … of the five Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) principles of democracy – electoral, liberal, egalitarian, deliberative and … democracy in the country. Two periods of relatively high achievement on democratic indices (during the first Czechoslovak …

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