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Capital\u27s Offense: Law\u27s Entrenchment of Inequality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Reviewing Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2014) Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a rare scholarly achievement.
Pasquale, Frank A.
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A substancialidade dos procedimentos oligárquicos no Brasil entre 1995 e 1998: as análises de Faoro

open access: yesCaderno CRH
Este estudo mapeia as reflexões de Raymundo Faoro, na segunda metade da década de 1990, com base em artigos e entrevistas publicados pelo autor na revista Carta Capital, acerca da continuidade ou não dos procedimentos políticos que reafirmavam as ...
Maria José de Rezende
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A theory of military dictatorships [PDF]

open access: yes
We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the emergence of military dictatorships. Nondemocratic regimes need the use of force in order to remain in power, but this creates a political moral hazard problem; a ...
Acemoglu, Daron   +2 more
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Qua Re qui possum non esse popularis: The representation of Populares in the Late Roman Republic. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The terms popularis and optimate have been employed in both ancient and modern literature to interpret late Roman Republican politics. The purpose of this work is to express the diversity and change of the popularis label from 133 to 88 B.C.
N/A, Nash, Michael A.
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War and endogenous democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international ...
Ticchi, Davide, Vindigni, Andrea
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