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democracy and the Russian-Orthodox monastery as the collective of dictatorship. Assuming a collectivist economy, I solve the …
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networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa’s interior …
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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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This paper questions the effect of democracy on regulatory reforms by mainly checking whether the observed differences … democracy. Our results, based primarily on the Oaxaca - Blinder decomposition approach, suggest that democracy is not the basis … of these observed differences. This calls into question the importance of democracy when it comes to unleashing the …
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This paper starts with the observation that almost all military dictatorships that democratize become presidential democracies. I hypothesize that military interests are able to coordinate on status-preserving institutional change prior to democratization and therefore prefer political...
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In Hollywood, the goals of art and business are entangled. Directors, writers, actors, and idealistic producers aspire to make the best films possible. These aspirations often interact with the dominant firms that control Hollywood film distribution. This control of distribution is crucial as it...
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difference between democracy and nondemocracy. This implies a difficult normative question, which we discuss in our conclusion …
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Esta tesis es un esfuerzo por desentrañar el papel que juega el campo financiero dentro del proceso de acumulación de capital y la manera en que condiciona el desarrollo de la lucha entre las clases sociales por la distribución de la riqueza y el control político de la comunidad. El punto de...
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Israel’s ongoing crisis – or ‘judicial coup’ in popular parlance – has elicited two opposite responses. The first comes from global rating agencies, economists and investment strategists who see Israel’s country risk rising. The opposite reaction, by Prime Minister Netanyahu and his...
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This article examines a specific form of state capitalism in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, characterized by the central role of the military in economic affairs. Following the events of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the Egyptian military not only secured its position as a key...
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