James R. Hollyer, B. Peter Rosendorff, James Raymond Vreeland

Information, Democracy, and Autocracy

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Produktbeschreibung

Increasing economic transparency benefits democracy: it helps elections work. Yet under autocracy, transparency contributes to political instability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 803g
• ISBN-13: 9781108420723
• ISBN-10: 1108420729
• Artikelnr.: 50444000

Autorenporträt

James R. Hollyer is a Benjamin Evans Lippincott Associate Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Professor Hollyer obtained his Ph.D. in political science from New York University in 2012, his M.A. in international relations from the University of Chicago in 2006, and his B.A. in political economy from Williams College in 2003. His research focuses on comparative and international political economy, particularly on transparency, corruption, political accountability, and the effects of international policy on domestic politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A new approach to the study of transparency
2. The content of information
3. The HRV index of transparency
4. Comparing measures of transparency
5. Transparency and (in)stability - the theory
6. The evidence - examples and descriptive data
7. The evidence - regression analyses
8. Transparency and investment
9. Why democracies disseminate more data than autocracies
10. Why autocrats disclose
11. Consequences of transparency
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