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Institutions and the support for market reforms

Denisova, Irina - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Economic self-interest and social considerations are the key determinants of public support for market reforms in transition countries. However, political strategies that rely mainly on public support for pushing through economic reforms have limited relevance if the prevailing institutional...

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Individual support for economic and political changes : evidence from transition countries, 1991-2004

Rovelli, Riccardo; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2011

Using a unique dataset for 14 transition economies, we propose a new measure for individual evaluations of transitional reforms, which we use to study, for the first time, the evolution of support for economic and political reforms from 1991 to 2004. We show that support for economic changes has...

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Everyone hates privatization, but why? Survey evidence from 28 post-communist countries

Denisova, Irina; Eller, Markus; Frye, Timothy; … - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 1, pp. 44-61

Studies of mass support for economic reform reveal a simple conclusion: Everyone hates privatization. Yet whether … respondents hold this view due to a preference for state property or concerns about the legitimacy of privatization is unclear. We … and concerns about the legitimacy of privatization. These results suggest the value of analyses that not only link …

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Did growth and reforms increase citizens' support for the transition?

Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2011

How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...

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Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens’ Support for the Transition?

Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2011

How did post-communist transformations affect people’s perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180258

Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Golinelli, Roberto - 2011

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Did growth and reforms increase citizens' support for the transition?

Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2011

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Social Costs of Mass Privatization

King, Lawrence; Stuckler, David - 2008

According to leading economic theorists, creating capitalism out of communism requires rapid privatization. In this … article we empirically test the welfare implications of privatization policies in Post-Soviet countries by using cross …-national panel mortality data as an indicator of social costs. We find that rapid privatization - whether measured by a novel measure …

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Public support for economic transition

Coufalová, Lucie; Kolajtová, Lenka; Žídek, Libor - In: Economics of transition and institutional change 31 (2023) 1, pp. 161-187

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Transition Fatigue? Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Data

Rovelli, Riccardo - 2009

The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and political transition using data from the New Barometer...

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