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Political determinants of the extensive and intensive margins of international arms transfers

Johannsen, Florian; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2013

countries over the period 1950 to 2007. As main political factors the level of democracy in the trading partners as well as the …

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The role of direct democracy in the European Union

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2003

discussion of the pros and cons of direct democracy, the ability of direct democracy to help creating a European demos is …

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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

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Populism and civil society

Boeri, Tito; Mishra, Prachi; Papageorgiou, Chris; … - 2018

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Government of the people, by the elite, for the rich : unequal responsiveness in an unlikely case

Elsässer, Lea; Hense, Svenja; Schäfer, Armin - 2018

Empirical studies have shown that US politics is heavily tilted in favor of the better off, as political decisions tend to reflect the preferences of the rich while largely ignoring those of the poor and middle classes. These findings have prompted a lively debate about potential mechanisms that...

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De-constitutionalization and majority rule : a democratic vision for Europe

Scharpf, Fritz W. - 2016

European integration has come to constrain the capacity for democratic political action in EU member states through the judicial constitutionalization of "economic liberties," whereas the capacity for effective political action at the European level is narrowly constrained by the multiple-veto...

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Who got the brexit blues? : using a quasi-experiment to show the effect of brexit on subjective wellbeing in the uk

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017

We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied...

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