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  1. (Successful) democracies breed their own support
    Author: Acemoglu, Daron; Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Fiszbein, Martín; Molina, Carlos
    Published: August 2021
    Publisher:  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, [London, United Kingdom]

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    Series: Working paper / European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; no. 260
    Subjects: democracy; economic growth; institutions; support for democracy; values
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 79 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Dekonstruktion und Demokratisierung
    emanzipatorische Politiktheorie im Kontext der Postmoderne
    Author: Rüdiger, Anja
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Leske + Budrich, Opladen

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    Series: Kieler Beiträge zur Politik und Sozialwissenschaft ; Bd. 15
    Subjects: Marxismus/Sozialismus; Strukturalismus; Demokratie; Literaturverzeichnis/Bibliographie; Marxism/Socialism; structuralism; democracy; bibliography; Politische Theorie; Demokratie; Marxismus; Strukturalismus; Konstruktivismus; Dekonstruktion; Postmoderne
    Other subjects: Array; Array; Deconstruction; Poststructuralism; Post-communism; Array
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  3. Information integrity and information pollution
    vulnerabilities and impact on social cohesion and democracy in Mexico
    Author: Breuer, Anita
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn

    Equal access to reliable information is essential for democracy and social cohesion. The rise of information pollution, particularly in digital spaces, poses significant challenges to democratic societies worldwide. While extensive research has... more

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    Equal access to reliable information is essential for democracy and social cohesion. The rise of information pollution, particularly in digital spaces, poses significant challenges to democratic societies worldwide. While extensive research has focused on its impact in developed, English-speaking democracies, there is a gap in understanding its effects in younger democracies, conflict zones, and less developed contexts. This study fills that gap by analysing Mexico as a case study. Based on interviews with Mexican media professionals, public sector officials, academics and human rights defenders, the study provides insights on the root causes of the problem and and strategies to combat information pollution, safeguard democracy, and promote social cohesion, underscoring the urgency of proactive measures both within Mexico and on a global scale in Mexico, information pollution significantly threatens the country's social cohesion and democratic principles. Structural conditions like poverty, inequality, violence, corruption, and media landscape issues enable societal vulnerability to digital information pollution. Factors directly driving information pollution include the exploitation of digital spaces by drug cartels, divisive narratives against marginalised groups, an increasingly media-hostile environment as well as the incumbent government’s post-factual approach to reality and politics. Information pollution has fostered a polarised discours, contributed to eroding trust in traditional media and amplified identity-based societal cleavages. It weakens the deliberative, participatory and liberal dimensions of democracy dimensions by decreasing the quality of public debate, damaging civil society watchdog roles, and reducing government transparency and accountability. Recommendations for Mexico encompass enhancing public resilience to information through civic education and targeted communication campaigns, empowering media capacity, and fortifying an open data culture in the Mexican public sector. Internationally, efforts should address elite-driven information pollution by reinforcing independent accountability institutions and leveraging diplomatic and economic incentives against leaders attacking these institutions.

     
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    Series: IDOS discussion paper ; 2024, 2
    Subjects: Politisches System; Gesellschaftsordnung; Information; Zugang; Social Media; Populismus; Polarisierung; Wirkung; Auswirkung; Demokratie; Wert; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Resilienz; Transparenz; Politischer Prozess; Politische Bildung; Verantwortlichkeit; Mexico; access to information; transparency; digitalisation; democracy; social cohesion; social media; disinformation; polarisation; information pollution
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 47 Seiten), Illustrationen, Diagramme
  4. Personnel, institutions, and power
    revisiting the concept of executive personalisation
    Author: Llanos, Mariana; Kühn, David; Richter, Thomas; Acheampong, Martin; Song, Esther E.; Arellano, Emilia
    Published: January 2024
    Publisher:  German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg

    Evidence points to an increasing personalisation of political power by chief executives in recent years. It is often argued that such personalisation contributes to the current trend of autocratisation and the global decline of democracy. Yet our... more

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    Evidence points to an increasing personalisation of political power by chief executives in recent years. It is often argued that such personalisation contributes to the current trend of autocratisation and the global decline of democracy. Yet our understanding hereof remains fractured, not least because there are a plethora of tacit understandings, definitions, and concepts vis-à-vis what political personalisation is. While potentially occurring in both autocracies and democracies, the scholarship is still too often siloed according to regime type. We thus develop a framework defining the phenomenon as a process in which the chief executive personalises power in policymaking and policy implementation by weakening the constraining capacities of relevant actors. The "personalisation of executive power" (PEXP) runs through three distinct mechanisms: personnel management, institutional engineering, and power arrogation. We illustrate the usefulness of our conceptual framework with four case studies during the COVID-19 pandemic: El Salvador, Ghana, South Korea, and Zimbabwe.

     
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    Series: GIGA working papers ; no 339
    Subjects: Macht; Vollziehende Gewalt; Personalisierung; Entscheidungsprozess; Entscheidungsbefugnis; Demokratie; Defizit; autocracy; democracy; executive; decision making; concentration of political power; personalisation; Covid-19 pandemic
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  5. The Republic of Senegal at a political turning point as President Faye takes office
    Author: Grütjen, Klaus
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) gGmbH, Bonn

    On 24 March 2024, presidential elections were held in Senegal, with opposition politician Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, who was 43 at the time, emerging as the winner. On 2 April 2024, he was sworn in as the fifth President of the Republic of... more

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    On 24 March 2024, presidential elections were held in Senegal, with opposition politician Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, who was 43 at the time, emerging as the winner. On 2 April 2024, he was sworn in as the fifth President of the Republic of Senegal. This event may mark a turning point in the country's recent history. It once again demonstrates Senegal's special position in the overall political context of the West Africa/Sahel region, in which military coups have increasingly taken place in recent years. This election runs counter to the current trend of increasing autocracy - at a global level too. During the three years prior to the election, Senegal suffered a deep political crisis that tested the constitutional state to its limits. Although the state institutions demonstrated their stability and resilience during this period and the achievements of democracy and the rule of law were able to be secured for the time being, due in large part to the country's strong civil society, weaknesses became apparent during this crisis in connection with the judiciary, freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Security forces used violence to stifle protests and demonstrations by parts of the population against what they saw as the illegal arrest and imprisonment of opposition politicians. Dozens of people died and several hundreds were injured as a result of these measures. Well over a thousand people were imprisoned without a proper trial. Up until ten days before his election as president, Faye himself was still in prison under these conditions. This makes it all the more remarkable that - and how - Senegal managed to overcome this crisis. The present article examines the political, social and constitutional factors that led to what now looks set to be a positive outcome of this conflict. The crisis, which has been overcome for the time being, and the new president's programme suggest that Senegal, too, is following a trend observed for some years now in the West Africa/Sahel region involving a redefinition of the state and of its duties, powers and services - and is doing so by democratically sound means. Faye and his partners have been battling the long-established political class. They promised their voters fundamental reforms of the state institutions and a rationalisation and streamlining of the public administration. Moreover, they vowed to take resolute steps to fight corruption, clientelism and embezzlement of public finances, goods and resources, which have all been increasing considerably in recent years. The unambiguous election result has given them a clear mandate to do so. The inauguration of President Faye will also partly alter the balance of power within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In the years ahead, there will be further shifts towards a younger generation of political elites in various countries in the region. In future, Germany and the European Union will need to pay greater attention to the fact that the African states are placing more emphasis on their own cultural identity and are increasingly asserting their own sovereignty in political discourse.

     
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    Series: IDOS policy brief ; 2024, 12
    Subjects: Machtwechsel; Regierungswechsel; Demokratisierung; Verfassungsstaat; Zivilgesellschaft; Reformpolitik; Reform; Senegal; governance; democracy; constitution; constitutional state; constitutional jurisdiction; rule of law; state building; nation building; state reform
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  6. Elections and (mis)reporting of COVID-19 mortality
    Author: Kpeli, Parrendah Adwoa; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita
    Published: April 2024
    Publisher:  Department of International Economic Policy, Institute for Economic Research, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    We investigate the effect of elections on underreporting COVID-19 mortality, measured as the difference between excess mortality and official statistics. Our identification strategy takes advantage of a natural experiment of the unanticipated onset... more

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    We investigate the effect of elections on underreporting COVID-19 mortality, measured as the difference between excess mortality and official statistics. Our identification strategy takes advantage of a natural experiment of the unanticipated onset of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the asymmetric electoral schedule of presidential elections around the world, in which some countriesfaced the pandemic with upcoming elections in the next two years, while others did not have this electoral pressure. Contrary to conventional wisdom that governments manipulate information downwards to enhance reelection probabilities, we find that democratic governments facing elections in the following years report COVID fatalities more truthfully. We explain the result by a potential aversion to the costs associated with exposed underreporting: using Gallup poll data for 2020 we show that underreporting of COVID-19 mortality potentially undermines trust in government but only in relatively democratic countries.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / University of Freiburg, Department of International Economic Policy ; Nr. 48
    Subjects: COVID-19; data manipulation; elections; democracy
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  7. Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions
    evidence from Indonesia's election reform
    Author: Al Izzati, Ridho; Dartanto, Teguh; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan

    People's trust in state and political institutions is a key foundation of a well-functioning economy. We estimate the impact of direct elections on people's trust in state and political institutions, using a major political reform in Indonesia as the... more

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    People's trust in state and political institutions is a key foundation of a well-functioning economy. We estimate the impact of direct elections on people's trust in state and political institutions, using a major political reform in Indonesia as the source of exogenous variation. Prior to 2005, regents, mayors, and governors were elected by the local legislative assembly. Since 2005, however, they have had to compete in an open election where voters directly choose their preferred leader. The historically and institutionally driven staggered implementation of these local direct elections allow us to identify the causal impact of the reform. We find that district direct elections increase trust in all state and political institutions, except for the police. However, our finding does not hold in districts that experienced moderate or high hostility during the elections, implying that trust is strongly influenced by the political situation. We also empirically show that the increase in trust took place simultaneously with improvements in economic outcomes.

     
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    Series: ADBI working paper series ; no. 1432 (February 2024)
    Subjects: democracy; direct election; trust; institution; Indonesia
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  8. (Mis-)information technology
    internet use and perception of democracy in Africa
    Author: Cariolle, Joël; Elkhateeb, Yasmine; Maurel, Mathilde
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  FERDi, Fondation pour les Études et Recherches sur le Développement International, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France

    The Internet has significantly expanded worldwide, changing our relationship with the world, and the way we communicate, educate, and inform ourselves. Africa, despite having a very low number of fixed-broadband subscriptions for 100 inhabitants, has... more

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    The Internet has significantly expanded worldwide, changing our relationship with the world, and the way we communicate, educate, and inform ourselves. Africa, despite having a very low number of fixed-broadband subscriptions for 100 inhabitants, has not escaped the Internet phenomenon, as the number of individuals with Internet access has risen from 2 in 2002 to 39.7 (per 100 inhabitants) in 2022. Similarly, the number of individuals with mobile- cellular telephone subscriptions has jumped from 12.4 in 2002 to 86.3 (per 100 inhabitants) in 2022 (ITU, 2022).

     
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    Series: Policy brief / FERDi, Fondation pour les Études et Recherches sur le Développement International ; 258 (November 2023)
    Subjects: Internet news; democracy; Africa; Digital development; Digital technologies
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  9. The Sudan syndrome
    state-society contests and the future of democracy after the december 2018 revolution
    Author: Elbadawi, Ibrahim; Alhelo, Alzaki
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Economic Research Forum (ERF), Dokki, Giza, Egypt

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    Series: ERF working papers series ; no. 1644 (August 2023)
    Subjects: Sudan syndrome; narrow corridor; political marketplace; conflicts; democracy; autocracy; social contract
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  10. Life evaluation, affluence and trust in the NDA government
    Author: Gaiha, Raghav; Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Aggarwal, Radhika
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  The University of Manchester Global Development Institute, Manchester

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    Series: Working paper series / Global Development Institute ; 2024, 070 (February 2024)
    Subjects: Trust; National Democratic Alliance (NDA); life evaluation; Hindu nationalism; minorities; democracy
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  11. Ossified democracy as an economic problem and policies for reclaiming its performance
    Author: Benáček, Vladimír; Frič, Pavol
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Prague

    This paper analyses the erosion of democracy in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe from the perspective of political economy. We posit that the coinciding effects of political marketing and the state financing of parties represent a peculiar... more

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    This paper analyses the erosion of democracy in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe from the perspective of political economy. We posit that the coinciding effects of political marketing and the state financing of parties represent a peculiar mix of liberal and étatist principles that have turned political regimes in the region into ossified democracies. Our theoretical analysis based on the economics of democracy of Anthony Downs revealed that voters are discriminated against as political consumers, which constrains their ability to function as sovereign principals in collective action. The dominance of political parties in the markets for both political and public goods is the leading cause of democracy's ossification and its susceptibility to corruption. We propose attenuating this decline through mandatory political tax designations, which re-establish the lost link between political markets and the markets in public goods and make the top-down dominance of the hierarchies in power subject to the bottom-up control of citizens motivated to engage in collective action. Economics of democracy is a heterogeneous fusion of market and command economy.

     
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    Series: IES working paper ; 2023, 11
    Subjects: public goods; democracy; collective action; political markets; financing ofparties
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  12. Market democracy, rising populism, and contemporary ordoliberalism
    Author: Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim
    Published: January 2024
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by phenomena like globalization and digitization producing winners and losers in economic terms. Growing feelings of alienation from... more

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    Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by phenomena like globalization and digitization producing winners and losers in economic terms. Growing feelings of alienation from the market-democratic system and the perceived loss of autonomy within the political system contribute to rising populism as well. In this chapter, we ask whether elements of public deliberation may be a means to reasonably responding to the populist challenge by strengthening citizen sovereignty in addition to consumer sovereignty. Ordoliberalism, as a specific form of liberalism that aims at achieving both a "functioning and humane order" within a system of "interdependent orders", is particularly apt to embrace the idea of public deliberation if it is rules-based.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 10888 (2024)
    Subjects: populism; ordoliberalism; democracy; deliberation
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  13. Bridling the successor
    optimal catenarian discipline
    Author: Gersbach, Hans; Gul, Faruk
    Published: 16 January 2024
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

    Motivated by insufficient fiscal discipline in democracy, we introduce and examine “Catenarian Discipline Rules”. An office-holder decides in each period whether to use available resources for his/her own personal consumption or for providing public... more

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    Motivated by insufficient fiscal discipline in democracy, we introduce and examine “Catenarian Discipline Rules”. An office-holder decides in each period whether to use available resources for his/her own personal consumption or for providing public goods for the population. In the unique subgame perfect and renegotiation-proof equilibrium, office-holders simply maximize personal consumption during their terms, which results in minimal public good provision and the worst outcome for society. With Catenarian Discipline, the personal consumption in the first part of an office-holder’s governing period is constrained by the maximal consumption of the previous office-holder (“Catenarian Constraint”). We characterize stationary equilibria, provide necessary and sufficient conditions for asymptotically efficient equilibria and illustrate the force of Catenarian Discipline by examples. Finally, we introduce two variants of the Catenarian Constraint that allow more flexibility of governing agents to react to shocks, either regarding the timing when the Constraint will be binding or by allowing the previous office-holder to postpone the application of the Catenarian Constraint for one period.

     
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    Subjects: catenarian discipline; democracy; bridling successors; elections; fiscal policy
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  14. The impact of US trade sanctions on the global trade of target countries
    do the political institutions of the targets matter?
    Author: Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza
    Published: January 2024
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by employing a gravity model that incorporates data spanning from 1980 to 2020 across 79 nations. The results reveal that both partial and... more

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    We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by employing a gravity model that incorporates data spanning from 1980 to 2020 across 79 nations. The results reveal that both partial and complete US sanctions lead to significant reductions in bilateral trade between the US and target countries as well as between target and third countries. A unit increase in the intensity of complete trade sanctions in place reduces US bilateral trade flows with its sanctioned trading partners by about 76 percent while a unit increase in the intensity of partial US sanctions decreases trade by 16 percent. When complete export and import sanctions are implemented, US bilateral trade flows with its sanctioned trading partners witness a staggering decline of about 90 percent and 39 percent, respectively. In contrast, the application of partial export and import sanctions leads to a decrease in trade by 13 percent and 17 percent, respectively, all other factors remaining constant (ceteris paribus). Moreover, we show that target countries with stronger political institutions, as measured by democracy indicators, manage to alleviate some of the adverse effects of US sanctions on bilateral trade with both the US and third countries.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 10910 (2024)
    Subjects: sanctions; trade; import; export; democracy; political institutions; gravity model
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  15. The legacy of Mexico's Drug War on youth political attitudes
    Author: García-Ponce, Omar; Laterzo, Isabel
    Published: July 2023
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico, where an entire generation of youths has been raised amid the country's most violent conflict over the past century. We fielded an... more

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    We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico, where an entire generation of youths has been raised amid the country's most violent conflict over the past century. We fielded an in-person survey to nearly 3,000 urban youths, measuring various sociopolitical attitudes such as trust in institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice. To assess the impact of violence exposure on these attitudes, we construct measures of childhood exposure for each individual by matching them with historical trends in homicide rates and military confrontations from the municipality where they grew up. Our findings indicate that exposure to both types of violence during the first ten years of life is associated with up to a 20 per cent decrease in reported interpersonal and political trust. We also find evidence of negative impacts on support for the political parties that ruled the country during that period. These results have significant implications for the consolidation of Mexico's young democracy. Understanding the long-term effects of exposure to violence during childhood is critical for designing effective policies to promote social and political stability, democratic norms, and social cohesion among the younger generation.

     
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    Series: WIDER working paper ; 2023, 96
    Subjects: organized crime; sociopolitical attitudes; Mexico; violence; trust; democracy; social cohesion
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  16. Digging deeper into the state-democracy nexus
    the role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy
    Author: Vaccaro, Andrea
    Published: June 2023
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    The growing body of research on the relationship between the state and democracy has remained inconclusive both in terms of causal direction and sign. One key factor contributing to this inconclusiveness is the lack of precision in the... more

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    The growing body of research on the relationship between the state and democracy has remained inconclusive both in terms of causal direction and sign. One key factor contributing to this inconclusiveness is the lack of precision in the conceptualization and measurement of democracy and state capacity. Drawing on this argument, my study takes an original approach to the topic by shifting the focus on more specific aspects of the two concepts. Through a statistical analysis of two precise attributes of democracy and state capacity-namely, civic participation and impartial bureaucracy-my study provides new evidence on their dynamic relationship in a comparative cross-country setting of over 160 countries after World War II. My findings strongly support the hypothesis that a vibrant civic society is an important prerequisite of impartial bureaucracies. They also highlight the importance of digging deeper into the concepts of democracy and state capacity to achieve a more thorough understanding on the state-democracy nexus and its underlying mechanisms.

     
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    Series: WIDER working paper ; 2023, 85
    Subjects: democracy; state capacity; civic participation; impartial bureaucracy; state-democracy nexus
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  17. Tourism and income inequality in sub-Saharan African countries
    the role of democracy
    Author: Jiaqun, Wang; Jotham, Kihumuro; Dossou, Toyo Amegnonna Marcel; Alinsato, Alastaire Sèna; Asongu, Simplice
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  African Governance and Development Institute, [Yaoundé]

    The tourism literature has largely neglected another important factor that may influence the tourism and income inequality relationships. This factor reflects democractic institutions of the destination country. To contribute to the tourism... more

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    The tourism literature has largely neglected another important factor that may influence the tourism and income inequality relationships. This factor reflects democractic institutions of the destination country. To contribute to the tourism literature, this studyattemmps to fill a gap in the tourism literature by investigating the moderating effect of democracy on the tourism-income inequality nexus for a panel of 23 subSharan African countries over the period 2000-2020. The empirical evidence is based on the panel corrected standard errors (PCSE) estimation technique. The results obtained from our study show that tourism and democracy unconditionally worsen income inequality. Moreover, democracy complements tourism to further undermine income distribution as positive synergies are apparent. Policy implications are discussed.

     
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    Series: AGDI working paper ; WP/24, 008
    Subjects: Tourism; democracy; income inequality; Africa; PCSE
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  18. Assessment of the influence of institutions and globalization on environmental pollution for open and closed economies
    Author: Gyamfi, Bright Akwasi; Agozie, Divine Quase; Ali, Ernest Baba; Bekun, Festus Victor; Asongu, Simplice
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  African Governance and Development Institute, [Yaoundé]

    As the environmental sustainability effectiveness of various political systems is taken into consideration, it is doubtful as to whether the presumption of the overall efficiency of democracy can be sustained in global governance architecture. The... more

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    As the environmental sustainability effectiveness of various political systems is taken into consideration, it is doubtful as to whether the presumption of the overall efficiency of democracy can be sustained in global governance architecture. The effectiveness of autocracies and democracies (i.e., governance indicators are compared in the present study) with reference to strengths and weaknesses in environmental objectives. This analysis explores the effect of autocracy, democracy, as well as the trend of globalization on CO2 emissions for open and closed economies from 1990 to 2020. Crucial indicators such as economic growth, renewable energy and non-renewable energy are controlled for while examining the roles of economic expansion on the disaggregated energy consumption portfolios for both open and closed economies. The empirical analysis revealed some insightful results. First, for the open economies, with the expectation of non-renewable energy which show a positive significant impact on emissions, all variables show a negative effect on emissions. Furthermore, the closed economies result indicate that, apart from renewable energy which has a negative relationship with emissions, all the variables including the interaction terms have a positive relation with emissions. However, an inverted U-shaped environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis was validated for both economies.

     
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    Series: AGDI working paper ; WP/24, 005
    Subjects: Open economies; closed economies; democracy; autocracy; Environmental Kuznets Curve; globalization index; environmental sustainability
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