Information, Democracy, and Autocracy: Economic Transparency and Political (In)Stability

ISBN-13: 9781108430807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 396 str.

James Raymond Vreeland; James R. Hollyer; B. Peter Rosendorf

Opis

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

Recenzje

'Information, Democracy, and Autocracy provides a novel theoretical approach to leveraging meaningful data out of strategically missing data …' Steven Lloyd Wilson, Perspectives on Politics

Spis treści

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; References; Index.