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“King of the Mountain”, or Why Postcommunist Autocracies Have Bad Institutions
Russian Politics and Law. 2014. Vol. 52. No. 2. P. 7–29.
The authors analyze levels of democracy and state capacity (including quality of institutions) in the postcommunist countries over the past two decades and consider the theoretical implications of the relationship between these variables. In particular, they cast serious doubt on the general validity of the J-curve hypothesis. They present their own informal “king of the mountain” model.
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Redistricting is an important tool of political struggle, distinguished
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European Research Network on Philanthropy, 2026.
ERNOP Conference Proceedings 2025
European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP)
Proceedings of contributions presented at the 12th ERNOP Conference 2025
"Philanthropy by the people, for the people?
The roles, organisations and motivations of philanthropy in
contemporary democracies and social structures"
Heidelberg, 25–26 September 2025
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