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Explaining the Path of the Democratic Transition
Kyklos, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 1142-1157, August 2025.ABSTRACT The paper explains two centuries of development of the political systems of the west by the underlying economic fundamentals. Democracy indices for the average country have a strong long‐run empirical relation to income that looks like a perfect transition curve. The traditional steady state political system was the three pillars model of king,
Martin Paldam
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Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2020 The article aims to study the problem of peasants participation in the bodies of rural, volost (parish), and Zemstvo self-government in the 18601910-ies.
A. M. Subbotina
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No One Shall Be Held in Slavery or Servitude: A critical analysis of international slavery conventions [PDF]
, 2001 Traces the development of slavery definitions in international agreements from 1815 to 2001. Overview of slavery definitions in international law; Historical analysis of the evolution of slavery definitions in international agreements; Analysis of the ...
Bales, Kevin, Robbins, Peter T.
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 511-575, July 2025.Abstract The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
Elias Papaioannou
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Alessandro Stanziani, Bondage. Labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries [PDF]
, 2015 Book ...
Croucher, Richard
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How Margaret Thatcher's Ideology Emboldened Her to Bite the Anti‐inflationary Bullet
Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 49-61, March 2025.To reduce the rate of inflation, Margaret Thatcher followed a policy of tight money. Milton Friedman in reviewing this policy predicted that it would lead to a modest reduction in output and employment (that) will be a side effect of reducing inflation to single figures by 1982, Friedman (1980, p. 14, my emphasis).
Ian M. McDonald
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Prémisses à une libération : la réforme de soi dans À la veille de Tourguéniev
ILCEA, 2013 This study aims to show that, On the Eve of Turgeniev, that was published in 1859, is in spite of appearances, a political novel and beyond the very romantic story of love, that constitutes the frame, it is also a reflection on freedom, that should be ...
Thierry Ozwald
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Economic inequality, culture, and governance quality
Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 375-402, February 2025.Abstract We review work that has linked economic inequality and culture to governance quality. We start with contributions that have considered the relationship between inequality and governance from a long‐run perspective. This historical perspective yields a range of insights and helps identify the deep drivers of specific cultural traits that relate
Andreas P. Kyriacou
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La Commémoration de l’abolition du servage en Russie
ILCEA, 2013 On March the 3rd, 2011, paying homage to Alexander the Second, the emancipating tsar, and his reforms, the then president Dmitri Medvedev intended to associate them to his own agenda for “the modernization of Russia”, but he was sidetracked by Vladimir ...
Marie Jego
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The nature and significance of the political ideal of the Rule of Law: Hayek, Buchanan, and beyond
Kyklos, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 1084-1102, November 2024.Abstract Hayek and Buchanan endorsed Böhm's “private law society” as expressive of the ideal of a government of laws, and not of men. But they also acknowledged that among the many, the enforceability of legal custom, adjudication, and legislation must be politically guaranteed by a state.
Hartmut Kliemt
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