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Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies [PDF]

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We present and test empirically a new theory of property and contract rights. Any incentive an autocrat has to respect such rights comes from his interest in future tax collections and national income and increases with his planning horizon.
Clague, Christopher   +3 more
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Why does AI hinder democratization? [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Chu CYC, Chang JJ, Lin CC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Instability of Democracy as Resource Curse [PDF]

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We suggest a dynamic game theoretic model to explain why resource abundance may lead to instability of democracy. Stationary Markov perfect equilibria of this game with four players – Politician, Oligarch, Autocrat and Public (voters) – are analyzed ...
Polterovich, Victor   +2 more
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Transitioning Democracies are a Risky Business in the South [PDF]

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The paper finds that trade is insignificant in explaining income inequality. The results also suggest institutions are good for inequality mitigation for a larger sample of developed and developing countries.
Mamoon, Dawood
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