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Strategic Aid Financing
Donor countries often face a Samaritan’s dilemma when trying to implement political conditionality in bilateral aid. Giv…
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Electoral Competition and Political Selection
Research in political economy has recently rediscovered that individuals, and not only institutions, matter for economic…
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Is War Good for a Country’s Political Institutions?
Author: Tom Coupe, KSE. Recent research suggests that experiencing war violence might make people more likely to turn ou…
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Does Social Media Promote Protests?
Author: Ruben Enikolopov, CEFIR. Despite a lot of speculations about the role of social media in recent political prote…
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Taxes and Benefits in the Polish Parliamentary Election Campaigns
Authors: Michal Myck and Monika Oczkowska, CenEA. The upcoming parliamentary elections in Poland, scheduled for the 25th…
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Local Self-Governance in the Republic of Belarus
Author: Aleh Mazol, BEROC. This policy brief summarizes the results of our research on the development of local self-gov…
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Evaluating the Political Man on Horseback – Coups and Economic Development
In a new paper (Meyersson, 2015) I examine the development effects of military coups. Coups overthrowing democratically…
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New Light on the Eastern Front – Contributions from Russia to the 70th Anniversary of the Victory in Europe in World War Two
Author: Lennart Samuelson, SITE. Interesting results of the post-Soviet research on the Second World War are now present…
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Public Procurement Thresholds in Sweden
Authors: Elena Paltseva and Giancarlo Spagnolo, SITE. We investigate the impact of procurement thresholds on strategic b…
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