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In memoriam Charles Simkins

Economist had a no-nonsense approach to analysing complicated pract...

Charles Simkins

Politics Web

Dr Biniam Bedasso on immigration and political preferences in South Africa: how has vot...

During the past week the buzz word has been ‘voting’, given the nai...

Margaux Giannaros, Biniam E. Bedasso

Podcast

The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in...

This paper examines the impact of political competition on economic...

Nonso Obikili

Policy Brief

Democratisation in Africa: The Role of Self-Enforcing Constitutional Rules

Following several decades during which violent civil conflict was c...

Krige Siebrits, Ada Jansen, Sophia du Plessis

Working Paper

Democratisation in Africa: The Role of Self-Enforcing Constitutional Rules

Following several decades during which violent civil conflict was c...

Krige Siebrits, Ada Jansen, Sophia du Plessis

Working Paper

Is Democracy Eluding Sub-Saharan Africa?

This paper analyses the modernisation hypothesis in the sub-Saharan...

Manoel Bittencourt, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

Democracy and Education: Evidence from the Southern African Development Community

In this paper I investigate whether democracy in the Southern Afric...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Political Economy/Public Choice Economics

CALL FOR PAPERS The twentieth anniversary of the transition to demo...

ERSA

Call for Papers

Yet Another Look at the Modernisation Hypothesis: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper whether the exogenous version of the m...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Determinants of Government and External Debt: Evidence from the Young Democracies of So...

We investigate in this paper what are the main determinants of gove...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Don’t Make War, Make Elections. Franchise Extension and Violence in XIXth-Century Colombia

This paper studies the effect of strengthening democracy, as captur...

Juan F. Vargas, Leopoldo Fergusson

Working Paper

Young Democracies and Government Size: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper the hypothesis that when democracies a...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Democracy, Populism and Hyperinflation(s): Some Evidence from Latin America

We test for the populist view of inflation in Latin America between...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper