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We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent...
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The notion of state capacity has attracted renewed interest over the last few years, in particular in the study of violent conflict. Yet, state capacity is conceived differently depending on whether the interest lies in the state's power to discourage violent conflict, in its ability to...
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Public institutions in the developing world are often characterized by institutional capture or decay. Yet, India … institutions in India, enjoys substantial powers, and conducts some of the longest elections in the world. We use a process … bureaucratic actors take advantage of moments of political opportunity, those aspects of the bureaucracy that can credibly meet …
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