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Marcus J. Kurtz
Researcher at Ohio State University
Publications - 33
Citations - 2224
Marcus J. Kurtz is an academic researcher from Ohio State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Resource curse. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 32 publications receiving 2101 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcus J. Kurtz include University of Michigan & University of Miami.
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Growth and Governance: Models, Measures, and Mechanisms
Marcus J. Kurtz,Andrew Schrank +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examine the relationship between good governance and economic development and find that there is far more reason to believe that growth and development spur improvements in governance than vice versa. But they also suggest that the dominant measures of governance are problematic, suffering from perceptual biases, adverse selection in sampling, and conceptual conflation with economic policy choices.
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The Dilemmas of Democracy in the Open Economy: Lessons from Latin America
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make the case that, under contemporary liberal economic conditions, the nature of the challenge for democratization has changed in important ways, such as the underarticulation of societal interests, pervasive social atomization, and socially uneven political quiescence founded in collective action problems.
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Electron impact ionization in the vicinity of comets
TL;DR: In this article, electron distributions measured in the vicinity of comets Halley and Giacobini-Zinner by instruments on the VEGA and ICE spacecraft, respectively, are used to calculate electron impact ionization frequencies.
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The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection: The Case of Software
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the case of software piracy and assess the mechanisms by which the new global obligations for the treatment of IPRs are transmitted from the international to the national levels.
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Conditioning the "Resource Curse": Globalization, Human Capital, and Growth in Oil-Rich Nations
Marcus J. Kurtz,Sarah M. Brooks +1 more
TL;DR: In the 1990s, it has become conventional wisdom that an abundance of natural resources, most notably oil, is very likely to become a developmental curse as discussed by the authors. But recent scholarship, however, has begun...