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This Ph.D. thesis consists of three chapters and analyzes how economic structures affect political outcomes. In the first chapter, Uwe Sunde and I develop a model to study the endogenous emergence of political regimes in societies in which productive resources are distributed unequally and...
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country-studies on China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, and sub-region studies on East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia …
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"China, Laos and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against …
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resources of a nation. China and India are the two largest emerging economies with different governance mechanisms of political … communism, democracy and capitalism. China has been able to achieve extraordinary economic growth rates since 1980 under … framework of comparative governance and applies it qualitatively to China briefly and India in detail …
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Broad consensus exists that the ability of political actors to make credible commitments is key to development. An important and little-explored determinant of the credibility of political commitments is the existence of organizations that facilitate citizen collective action to sanction...
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I propose and test a bottom-up channel through which trust between parties to an exchange can go on to affect comparative economic development of societies as a whole. My approach revolves around the autonomy that employers (principals) grant to workers (agents), which is a key feature of...
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Existing literature suggests that either colonial settlement conditions or the identity of colonizer were influential in shaping the post-colonial institutional environment, which in turn has impacted long-run economic development, but has treated the two potential identification strategies as...
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Broad consensus exists that the ability of political actors to make credible commitments is key to development. An important and little-explored determinant of the credibility of political commitments is the existence of organizations that facilitate citizen collective action to sanction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012551171
I propose and test a bottom-up channel through which trust between parties to anexchange can go on to affect comparative economic development of societies as awhole. My approach revolves around the autonomy that employers (principals)grant to workers (agents), which is a key feature of workplace...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996906