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Turnout Across Democracies
Herrera, Helios - 2014
World democracies widely differ in electoral rules, as well as in legislative, executive or legal institutions. Different institutional environments induce different mappings from electoral outcomes to the distribution of power. We explore how these mappings affect voters' participation to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458217
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Terrorism and Political Attitudes : Evidence from European Social Surveys
Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Since the turn of the last century, nationalistic political parties have been gaining support in Europe. Over the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510541
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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016
Moriconi, Simone - 2018
party voting with a classification of each party's political agenda on a scale of their "nationalistic" attitudes over 28 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480728
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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy
Bentzen, Jeanet - 2015
Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped … representative democracy. The basic association, however, is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous groups within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457474
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What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970
Kim, E. Han - 2006
We compile the list of articles published in major refereed economics journals during the last 35 years that have received more than 500 citations. We document major shifts in the mode of contribution and in the importance of different sub-fields: Theory loses out to empirical work, and micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466139
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Gender Gaps at the Academies
Card, David E.; Della Vigna, Stefano; Funk, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Historically, a large majority of the newly elected members of the National Academy of Science (NAS) and the American Academy of Arts and Science (AAAS) were men. Within the past two decades, however, that situation has changed, and in the last 3 years women made up about 40 percent of the new...
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Globalization, Democracy and Development
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2013
This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using … simultaneous estimation techniques. To reflect process, we use multi-dimensional, de facto, and continuous measures of democracy … the income frontier. Using this measure of development, we extend the test for the two-way relationship between democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459086
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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding
Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National …This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the … Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially narrowed in Europe. Underrepresented minorities are less likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334326
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The Heights of Europeans Since 1750 : A New Source For European Economic History
Floud, Roderick - 1984
Economic and social historians have traditionally been concerned to measure changes in the income and welfare of populations in the past.Until recently, however, they have not recognized that anthropometric data, such as evidence on the average height achieved by a population at a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477779
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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
Bordo, Michael D. - 2008
This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464832