[BOOK][B] Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy

D Acemoglu, JA Robinson - 2005 - books.google.com
This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy.
Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate …

Do natural resources fuel authoritarianism? A reappraisal of the resource curse

S Haber, V Menaldo - American political science Review, 2011 - cambridge.org
A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between natural resources and
democracy. Extant cross-country regressions, however, assume random effects and are run …

Why did the elites extend the suffrage? Democracy and the scope of government, with an application to Britain's “Age of Reform”

A Lizzeri, N Persico - The Quarterly journal of economics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
A new rationale is presented for why an elite may want to expand the franchise even in the
absence of threats to the established order. Expanding the franchise can turn politicians …

Conquered or granted? A history of suffrage extensions

A Przeworski - British Journal of Political Science, 2009 - cambridge.org
Why was franchise extended to the lower classses and to women? Was it conquered by the
excluded groups, threatening that unless they were admitted as citizens they would reach for …

On the joint evolution of culture and institutions

A Bisin, T Verdier - 2017 - nber.org
Explanations of economic growth and prosperity commonly identify a unique causal effect,
eg, institutions, culture, human capital, geography. In this paper we provide instead a …

Democratization under the threat of revolution: Evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832

TS Aidt, R Franck - Econometrica, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the link between the threat of violence and democratization in the context of the
Great Reform Act passed by the British Parliament in 1832. We geo‐reference the so‐called …

Democracy comes to Europe: franchise extension and fiscal outcomes 1830–1938

TS Aidt, J Dutta, E Loukoianova - European Economic Review, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper examines the relation between public spending and the spread of democracy in
Western Europe during the period 1830–1938. Our data set includes measures of the size of …

On the joint evolution of culture and political institutions: Elites and civil society

A Bisin, T Verdier - Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We provide an abstract model of the interaction between culture and political institutions.
The model is designed to study the political economy of elites and civil society on the …

Partisan competition, growth, and the franchise

H Llavador, RJ Oxoby - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We present an argument for changes in the franchise in which an elite split along economic
interests uses the suffrage to influence implemented policies. Through the influence of these …

[BOOK][B] Citizenship Beyond Nationality: Immigrants' Right to Vote Across the World

L Pedroza - 2019 - books.google.com
In Citizenship Beyond Nationality, Luicy Pedroza considers immigrants who have settled in
democracies and who live indistinguishably from citizens—working, paying taxes, making …