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Democracy and Growth Reconsidered: Why Economic Performance of New Democracies is not Encouraging [PDF]
There are two innovations as compared to the previous literature on democratization and growth. First, not only the level of democracy is taken into account, but also changes in this level in the 1970s-1990s as measured by the political rights indices of
Polterovich, Victor, Popov, Vladimir
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Script Reform, Human Capital and Social Change: Evidence From Uzbekistan's Latin Alphabet Transition
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Script reforms are common nation‐building tools, yet rigorous evidence on their effects is scarce. This paper examines Uzbekistan's transition from Cyrillic to Latin script, mandated in 1993 and implemented in schools from 1996. I study heterogeneous effects across initial conditions using a difference‐in‐differences design that exploits ...
Angelina Nazarova
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Adjustment Disorder Symptoms Among Parents of Soldiers in Mandatory Service During Wartime
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Parents of soldiers remain relatively understudied in wartime mental health research, and adjustment disorder in this population has yet to be examined. Objective Grounded in the transactional stress model, the study explored adjustment disorder symptoms and the factors associated with these symptoms among parents of soldiers in ...
Miri Kestler‐Peleg, Yael Doft
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International Journal of Communication, 2018 Concern about how digital communication technologies contribute to a decline of democracy and the rise of authoritarian tendencies abounds in academic and public debate.
Marlies Glasius, Marcus Michaelsen
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Macedonia: Illiberal Democracy
, 2014 The recent presidential and early parliamentary elections in Macedonia are only one illustration of the country’s long-term political condition: illiberal democracy.
Abazi, V.
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Female Autonomy in Material and Symbolic Contexts Among Women in Situations of Poverty in Brazil
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how black women in Brazil navigate intersecting dimensions of race, gender, and socio‐economic status, illustrating the sociocultural factors that shape their daily experiences, with a focus on female autonomy. Drawing on a qualitative design, we conducted semi‐structured interviews with 97 women, of whom 77 self ...
Silvana Aparecida Mariano +2 more
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The Political Economy of Neoliberalism and Illiberal Democracy
Cadmus, 2017 The unprecedented opportunities missed at the end of the Cold War have come back to haunt and taunt us in the form of misshapen ideologies and misconceived policies.
Garry Jacobs
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Illiberal Democracy and Beyond in Hungary
, 2014 Verfassungsblog: On Matters ...
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International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
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Politics and GovernanceEU integration has opened new controversies in making sense of democracy. This article studies how discourses on democracy in EU integration open spaces to hijack the concept of democracy, using a novel empirical dataset on proposals for reforming EU ...
Max Steuer
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