Calendrier du 15 avril 2022
PSE Internal Seminar
Du 15/04/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
R2-21
ETILÉ Fabrice(PSE)
KOESSLER Frédéric(PSE)
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EPCI (Economie politique du changement institutionnel) Seminar
Du 15/04/2022 de 11:00 à 12:30
Salle R1.14, Campus Jourdan - 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
BERAMENDI Pablo (Duke University, Department of Political Science)
Resilient Democracies
écrit avec with Carles Boix and Daniel Stegmueller
What makes democracy survive, particularly in countries beset by high economic inequality and political polarization? In this paper we analyze the drivers of democratic stability in the long run, showing that, while on average inequality and polarization foster social strife and jeopardize democratic life, their ultimate institutional consequences vary with each country’s level of development. Democratic institutions in developed countries remain by and large resilient despite the corrosive impact of inequality and polarization. Democracies in poor countries do not. We test our theory employing flexible semiparametric duration models that capture the potentially non-linear interplay between inequality and development in shaping the probability of democratic survival over time, while allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence. Our data, which consists of sovereign states and spans over more than a century, includes a novel approach at measuring inequality as both a function of the distributions of assets and flows and the relative weight of different assets in the overall structure of production.
Behavior Working Group
Du 15/04/2022 de 11:00 à 12:00
MSE
KORDA Hélène ()
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