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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
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Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites [PDF]
Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal a striking variation across world regions.
Alireza Naghavi +2 more
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The Golden Halo and Political Transitions [PDF]
In this paper we analyze the role of the IMF and the World Bank in triggering changes in the political regime, i.e., democracy and autocracy. We develop a theoretical model which predicts that anticipation of financial flows from international financial ...
Aidt, Toke +2 more
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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Good versus Bad Political Institutions and Economic Welfare [PDF]
The paper finds that countries which practice democracy are less prone to unequal outcomes especially when it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities but its impact on income ...
Mamoon, Dawood
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do the strategies that governments employ when they encounter crisis‐induced turbulence affect the robustness of the political regime in which they operate? Comparative studies of the connection between government strategies and political regime robustness under different cultural and institutional conditions are few and far between.
Eva Sørensen +5 more
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A kleptocrat's survival guide : autocratic longevity in the face of civil conflict [PDF]
Autocratic regimes are quite often short-lived kleptocracies formed and maintained through force and used to appropriate wealth from subjects. Some of these autocracies collapse after only a year or two of plundering while others manage to survive for 15
Milante, Gary
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Trust Norms, Distrust, and Worst‐Case Defiance in the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When pandemics threaten, governments are expected to protect citizens. Trustworthiness and trust are central to meeting public expectations. Motivational posturing theory differentiates resistant and dismissive defiance during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Valerie Braithwaite
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Internet Control and Disinformation Across Regime Types During and After the Covid‐19 Crisis
Politics and GovernanceThe unprecedented scale of mitigation measures taken by governments during the Covid-19 pandemic raised concerns about if and to what extent democracy would be affected. Empirical accounts show that media freedom was the most vulnerable.
Marianne Kneuer +2 more
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Political Reforms and Public Policies: Evidence from Agricultural Protection. [PDF]
This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a dataset on global agricultural distortions over 50 years (including data from 74 developing and developed countries over the period 1955-2005).
Falkowski, J., Olper, A., Swinnen, Jo
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