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Causes of Changes in Political-Economic Regimes

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If we want to speak about the causes of changes of political-economic regimes or systems we should first try to formulate what we understand by the latter concepts. In this paper, a political-economic regime is defined by the set of relatively stable and long-lasting rules (including the legal system), rights and government organizations within and through which it operates.

Parts of this paper are reprinted with kind permission from ‘Efficiency, Polictical-Economic Organization, and International Competition Among States’, International Journal of the Unity of the Sciences, 1992, 5, pp. 443–83.

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Bernholz, P. (1995). Causes of Changes in Political-Economic Regimes. In: Gerken, L. (eds) Competition among Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/9781349242627_3

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