Search Results - subject_exact:"Democracy"

Personal values or a democratic value? : revisiting public reactions to the failure of civilian control in Japan

Kato, Gento; Oshida, Yuma; Oi, Rikuto; Shibata, Hiroyoshi; … - 2026 - Last Update: February 8, 2026

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Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2026

We describe Aristotle's mathematical model of weighted voting to explain and implement decision-making in democracies, oligarchies and the mixed states that combine elements of both systems. This model, originally presented in textual form, extends the known history of social choice theory back...

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Aristotle's social choice

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2026

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The war of ideas : institutions and global media bias

Liu, Sibo; Makarin, Alexey; Wu, Jinfeng; Zhang, Dong - 2026

We present the first systematic analysis of how countries cover each other in the news, using a newly constructed dataset of 55,240 media sources from 176 countries between 2015 and 2022, drawing upon a corpus of 1.4 billion online news articles. We document a pattern of global media bias:...

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What drives international cooperation? : evidence from WTO negotiations

Tarlea, Silvana; Weiler, Florian - 2026

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Political stability and money laundering risk

Mahmood, Hamza; Ashraf, Badar Nadeem; Tran, Vy - 2026

The influence of political stability on financial crime remains a subject of ongoing debate. While stability is often associated with policy continuity, regulatory credibility, and more effective enforcement, an alternative view suggests that unstable democracies may outperform stable...

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Local government and fiscal transfers : enhancing or weakening democracy?

2026

This open access book analyses whether and to what extent fiscal transfers from central to local governments affect democracy at sub-national level. Fiscal transfers are often perceived to undermine democracy, as politicians utilise them to build patronage networks, weaken opposition candidates,...

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Does military spending stabilize or destabilize governments? : international analysis

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2026

Military spending by nations has the potential to either stabilize governments or destabilize them (via threats of coups, for instance). We study this relationship formally by using a rich dataset on more than 150 countries, spanning nearly two recent decades from 2006 to 2023. Among other...

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The Russian grain trap food security & political development in sub-Saharan Africa

Martyshev, Pavlo; Grigoriadis, Theocharis; Nivievskyi, Oleg - 2026

The weaponization of agricultural trade has once again emerged as critical in the study of modern geopolitics due to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Although Russia has used its wheat exports as a means of enhancing its geopolitical influence over countries in the Global South, evidence...

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Reality check on donor expectations : do GovTech initiatives help autocrats?

Sinanoglu, Semuhi; Schiller, Armin von - 2026

International donors commit substantial resources to GovTech projects (the application of information and communication technologies to government functions). World Bank GovTech investments alone have exceeded $118 billion over the last three decades. Donor strategy documents consistently frame...

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Toward holistic stakeholder engagement : integrating participation, inclusion, and democracy

Wenzel, Matthias; Trittin-Ulbrich, Hannah; … - 2025

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Does democracy matter in banking performance? : exploring the linkage between democracy, economic freedom and banking performance in the European Union member states

Socol, Adela; Iuga, Iulia Cristina - 2025

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Labor-inclusive corporatism after democratic transitions : institutionalization in South Africa and Brazil

Castro, Henrique A. - 2025

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Development, democracy, and dependence in the Southern Cone : political coalitions, stabilizing mechanisms, and their hazards

Villegas Plá, Belén; Milcíades Peña, Alejandro - 2025

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Teaching democracy and capitalism : high engagement and "doing economics"

Bruner, Robert F. - 2025

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On pendular voting

Gersbach, Hans - 2025

"Pendular Voting" presents a novel two-stage voting procedure: A randomly chosen citizen group votes on a proposal replacing the status quo. Depending on the outcome, a "counterproposal" ensues, that is closer to/further away from the status quo than the original proposal. All citizens vote...

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On Pendular Voting

Gersbach, Hans - 2025

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On pendular voting

Gersbach, Hans - 2025

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Institutions, history, antagonisms, and development : the contributions of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson

Papaioannou, Elias - 2025

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The 'political indifference' of the World Bank : the case of Brazil, 1948-1988

Kedar, Claudia - 2025

An intriguing question regarding the relationship between international financial institutions (IFIs) and their Latin American borrowers concerns how and why regime type influences the degree to which the parties are prepared to sign loan agreements. Some scholars highlight a 'democratic...

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Europe's super-rich : towards oligarchic constitutional order

Regilme, Salvador Santino F. <Jr.> - 2025

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Women's political empowerment, economic development, and democracy around COVID-19 : a cross-country analysis

Bitar, Mohammad; Peillex, Jonathan; El Ouadghiri, Imane; … - 2025

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Measuring the impact of democracy on gender equality : does choice of index matter?

Singh, Alka; Chaudhry, Archna - 2025

Using a variety of indicators, the study tries to analyze the impact of democracy on gender equality for a sample of 159 countries across the world. For this purpose, the study used static panel data models and applied various tests of robustness to estimate the impact of democracy on gender...

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Mudaliar, Christopher; Leach, Michael; Baker, Kerryn; … - 2025

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A systemic review on the possibility of democratic degrowth transition

Kovács, Olivér - 2025

The present paper offers a systemic literature review on the concept of degrowth by envisioning its impact on democracy. In so doing it first uses the methodology called SPIDER by building on a number of relevant literatures derived from Scopus. Second, it introduces a variety of degrowth...

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A systemic review on the possibility of democratic degrowth transition

Kovács, Olivér - 2025

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Gender diverse boardrooms and earnings manipulation : does democracy matter?

Varouchas, Evangelos G.; Arvanitis, Stavros E.; Floros, … - 2025

We investigate the influence of boardroom gender diversity on earnings management. Drawing on a sample of European firms over the 2010-2023 period, we document an inverted U-shaped nexus between boardroom gender heterogeneity and earnings manipulation. Moreover, we also find that the Democracy...

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Institutional media freedom in the EU : implications for democratic governance and social innovation

Supekova, Sona Chovanova; Stehlíková, Beáta; Keklak, … - 2025

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Political salience and regime resilience

Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; Huck, Steffen; … - 2025

We introduce political salience into a canonical model of attacks against political regimes, as scaling agents’ expressive payoffs from taking sides. Equilibrium balances heterogeneous expressive concerns with material bandwagoning incentives. We examine comparative statics in salience that...

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Political salience and regime resilience

Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; Huck, Steffen; … - 2023

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Conflict and democratic preferences

Stoelinga, Nicole; Tähtinen, Tuuli - 2025

We investigate how exposure to conflict events shapes individuals' democratic preferences, focusing on support for democracy in general and perceptions of governance within one's own country. We examine how ethnic affiliation - whether an individual belongs to an ethnic group with access to...

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Democracy, human capital, and foreign direct investment : evidence from developing economies

Acheampong, Alex O.; Opoku, Eric Evans Osei - 2025

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The price of poverty : inequality and the strategic use of clientelism in divided democracies

Cendales, Andrés; Guerrero Sierra, Hugo Fernando; … - 2025

This article investigates the political cost of poverty in democracies marked by deep social divisions. We develop a probabilistic voting model that incorporates clientelism as a strategic tool employed by elite political parties to secure electoral support from non-elite voters. Unlike models...

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Electoral dynamics and public primary education spending in a semi-democratic regime : Spain 1902-1922

Azar, Paola; Espuelas, Sergio - 2025

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The political-economic risks of AI

Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2025 - First version: January 29, 2025

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Good-for-nothing entrepreneurs : capitalism and democratic decline in the West

Naudé, Wim - 2025

This paper focuses on the relationship between capitalism and the decline in democracy in the West over the past quarter-century. Using data from the V-Dem Institute, Freedom House, and the World Inequality Database, a strong correlation is found between inequality, the rise of tech...

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Good-for-Nothing Entrepreneurs: Capitalism and Democratic Decline in the West

Naudé, Wim - 2025

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How democracy promoters respond to global autocratisation

Grimm, Sonja; Weiffen, Brigitte; Mross, Karina - 2025

Autocratisation has become a defining global trend, replacing decades of democratisation and forcing democracy promoters to rethink their approaches. Democracy promoters must adapt to several challenges, including autocratisation in target countries, the rise of powerful autocratic competitors...

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Putting auditing in the context of democratic governance : the question of auditing discretion from the public's perspective

Natan-Krup, Dana; Mizrahi, Shlomo - 2025

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Technocracy without society : a critique of nudging as an approach to managing risk

Schneider, Suzanne - 2025

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Have autocrats governed for the long term?

Millemaci, Emanuele; Monteforte, Fabio; Temple, Jonathan - 2025

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Have autocrats governed for the long term?

Millemaci, Emanuele; Monteforte, Fabio; Temple, Jonathan - 2024

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Regional deprivation, individual prospects, and political resentment

Facchini, Giovanni; Neundorf, Anja; Pardos-Prado, Sergi; … - 2025

Regional economic conditions affect livelihoods and the geography of political resentment. Yet, individuals do not equally partake in their region’s economic fortunes, and their perceptions of relative deprivation need not be the same. Grievances are likely to be shaped not only by income...

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Inequality, income, and democracy in perspective : insights from novel data analysis

Caeiro, Rute Martins; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Puzon, … - 2025

The relationship between economic development, inequality, and democratization has long been debated in the literature. Yet empirical analyses of this interplay have been limited and have yielded overall mixed and inconsistent results. This paper seeks to address this gap by examining the impact...

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Inequality and redistributive taxation in the Global South

Vaccaro, Andrea - 2025

This paper investigates the relationship between inequality and redistributive taxation. It provides a review of existing research on the topic and a cross-country empirical analysis of this relationship. Using data from the World Income Inequality Database, Government Revenue Dataset, and other...

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Inequality and redistributive taxation in the Global South

Vaccaro, Andrea - 2025

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Economic democracy : a brief history and the laws that make it

McGaughey, Ewan - 2024

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Olympic Games and democracy

Dörr, Leo; Leppert, Elias; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2024 - Version: July 2024

We analyze whether the Olympic Games contribute to a process of democratization in the awarded country, as postulated in the cases of the 2008 and 2014 Olympics, controlling for endogeneity issues that may arise if the decision to award host status by the International Olympic Committee is...

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The corporate social assessment : making public purpose pay

Bennett, Michael; Claassen, Rutger - 2024

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Which freedoms benefit the poor? : a two-horse race between economic and political freedoms on health-adjusted life expectancy and child mortality, 1990-2020

Helmersen, Ingrid Holthe; De Soysa, Indra - 2024

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Are autocratic donors impeding democracy abroad? : the presence of autocratic donors and citizens' perceptions of democracy

Gafuri, Adea - 2024

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Life evaluation, affluence and trust in the NDA government

Gaiha, Raghav; Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Kulkarni, Vani S.; … - 2024

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The Republic of Senegal at a political turning point as President Faye takes office

Grütjen, Klaus - 2024

On 24 March 2024, presidential elections were held in Senegal, with opposition politician Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, who was 43 at the time, emerging as the winner. On 2 April 2024, he was sworn in as the fifth President of the Republic of Senegal. This event may mark a turning point in the...

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The Republic of Senegal at a political turning point as President Faye takes office

Grütjen, Klaus - 2024

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Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions : evidence from Indonesia's election reform

Al Izzati, Ridho; Dartanto, Teguh; Suryadarma, Daniel; … - 2024

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Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions : evidence from Indonesia's election reform

Al Izzati, Ridho; Dartanto, Teguh; Suryadarma, Daniel; … - 2024

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Tourism and income inequality in sub-Saharan African countries : the role of democracy

Jiaqun, Wang; Jotham, Kihumuro; Dossou, Toyo Amegnonna … - 2024

The tourism literature has largely neglected another important factor that may influence the tourism and income inequality relationships. This factor reflects democractic institutions of the destination country. To contribute to the tourism literature, this studyattemmps to fill a gap in the...

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Market democracy, rising populism, and contemporary ordoliberalism

Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2024

For several decades, what has been called the "liberal cosmopolitan-minded urban elites" set the political agenda of Western democracies (Dold and Krieger 2019a). They aimed at personal freedom and upward social mobility by means of a meritocratic system that was safeguarded by a combination of...

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Market democracy, rising populism, and contemporary ordoliberalism

Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2024

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Personnel, institutions, and power : revisiting the concept of executive personalisation

Llanos, Mariana; Kühn, David; Richter, Thomas; … - 2024

Evidence points to an increasing personalisation of political power by chief executives in recent years. It is often argued that such personalisation contributes to the current trend of autocratisation and the global decline of democracy. Yet our understanding hereof remains fractured, not least...

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The democracy tax - politicians' ignorance and voters' lack of information in a democratic contest : a case study from the Czech Republic

Cap, Vilem; Feurich, Marek; Lukavec, Martin - 2024

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