nondemocracies

We also show that greater natural resource rents make military coups against democracies more likely, but have ambiguous effects on the political equilibrium in nondemocracies (because with abundant natural resources, repression becomes more valuable to the elite, but also more expensive to maintain because of the more severe political moral hazard that natural resources induce).

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

But very few of the political or economic issues pitted democracies against nondemocracies in a straightforward manner.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

For generations (actually, for millenia) homosexuals have been persecuted both in democracies and nondemocracies ...

Capitalism, Democracy, and Polygamy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But very few of the political or economic issues pitted democracies against nondemocracies in a straightforward manner.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

I've long remembered this passage from John Mueller's Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery:For generations actually, for millenia homosexuals have been persecuted both in democracies and nondemocracies, and their defining sexual activity has been routinely outlawed.

EconLog: Political Economy Archives 2009

I've long remembered this passage from John Mueller's Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery:For generations actually, for millenia homosexuals have been persecuted both in democracies and nondemocracies, and their defining sexual activity has been routinely outlawed.

EconLog: April 2009 Archives 2009

For generations actually, for millenia homosexuals have been persecuted both in democracies and nondemocracies, and their defining sexual activity has been routinely outlawed.

Mueller's Theory, Wilkinson's Practice, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Do you believe that democracies necessarily grow slower than nondemocracies?

More Than Freedom 2008

We also show that greater natural resource rents make military coups against democracies more likely, but have ambiguous effects on the political equilibrium in nondemocracies because with abundant natural resources, repression becomes more valuable to the elite, but also more expensive to maintain because of the more severe political moral hazard that natural resources induce.

Acemoglu strikes again 2008

Second, very few of the world's pressing problems break down along the lines of democracies vs. nondemocracies, either by topic or constituency.

Archive 2008-07-01 Stephen Retherford 2008