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Why are the elite in China motivated to promote growth?
Zang, Xiaowei - 2010
differences between autocracy and democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280188
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Gender inequality in education: Political institutions or culture and religion?
Cooray, Arusha; Potrafke, Niklas - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2010
We investigate empirically whether political institutions or culture and religion underlie gender inequality in education. The dataset contains up to 157 countries over the 1991-2006 period. The results indicate that political institutions do not significantly influence education of girls:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673505
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Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence
Feng, Yi - The MIT Press
, specifically, the controversial question of the relationship between democracy and quality of life. Feng systematically studies … theory and country-specific case studies, Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance demonstrates that political … the direct effects of the three key political variables on economic growth and the indirect effects of democracy in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756538
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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The employment effects of ethnic politics
Amodio, Francesco; Chiovelli, Giorgio; Hohmann, Sebastian - 2019
This paper studies the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. We combine geo-referenced data from 15 countries, 32 parliamentary elections, 62 political parties, 243 ethnic groups, 2,200 electoral constituencies, and 400,000 individuals. We implement a regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140265
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Democracy, Economic Reform and Regional Cooperation
Solingen, Etel - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 8 (1996) 1, pp. 79-114
concludes that: (1) even if democracy may be expected to have a positive effect on cooperation, it may be neither necessary nor …
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Storable votes and quadratic voting : an experiment on four California propositions
Casella, Alessandra; Sanchez, Luis - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056184
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Inequality, Fiscal Capacity and the Political Regime: Lessons from the Post-Communist Transition
Gerry, Christopher; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006
Using panel data for twenty-seven post-communist economies between 1987-2003, we examine the nexus of relationships between inequality, fiscal capacity (defined as the ability to raise taxes efficiently) and the political regime. Investigating the impact of political reform we find that full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677567
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018169