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Partisan Competition, Growth and the Franchise

Llavador, Humberto; Oxoby, Robert J. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

, democracy expanded dramatically, giving birth to the first wave of democratization. The concurrence of these changes in the … the absence of condition (3) drives growth-deterring democratic expansions. Hence, too much and too little democracy can …

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Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany, 1919-33

Satyanath, Shanker; Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

democracy in interwar Germany by analyzing Nazi party entry rates in a cross-section of towns and cities. Before the Nazi Party … in Weimar Germany aided the rise of the Nazi movement that ultimately destroyed Germany’s first democracy. …

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Democracy and the curse of natural resources

Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

, in countries with weak institutions. Natural resources may be bad for democracy by harming political turnover. Our model … also suggests a non-linear dependence of human capital on natural resources. For low levels of democracy human capital … depends negatively on natural resources, while for high levels of democracy the dependence is reversed. This theoretical …

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Highway to Hitler

Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

Can infrastructure investment win "hearts and minds"? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship – the building of the motorway network in Nazi Germany. The Autobahn was one of the most important projects of the Hitler government. It was intended to reduce unemployment, and...

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The Implicit Theory of Historical Change in the work of Alan S. Milward

Lynch, Frances M. B.; Guirao, Fernando - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

Alan S. Milward was an economic historian who developed an implicit theory of historical change. His interpretation which was neither liberal nor Marxist posited that social, political, and economic change, for it to be sustainable, had to be a gradual process rather than one resulting from a...

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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth

Ponzetto, Giacomo; Troiano, Ugo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under- invest in education, whose...

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Estimating Bayesian Decision Problems with Heterogeneous Priors

Hansen, Stephen; McMahon, Michael - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

In many areas of economics there is a growing interest in how expertise and preferences drive individual and group decision making under uncertainty. Increasingly, we wish to estimate such models to quantify which of these drive decision making. In this paper we propose a new channel through...

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Balancing the Power to Appoint Officers

Barberà, Salvador; Coelho, Danilo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

Rules of k names are frequently used methods to appoint individuals to office. They are two-stage procedures where a first set of agents, the proposers, select k individuals from an initial set of candidates, and then another agent, the chooser, appoints one among those k in the list. In...

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Government Spending and Re-election: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Litschig, Stephan; Morrison, Kevin - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

Does additional government spending improve the electoral chances of incumbent political parties? This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on this question. Our research design exploits discontinuities in federal funding to local governments in Brazil around several population...

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Shrouded Costs of Government: Political Economy of State and Local Public Pensions Data

Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

Why do public-sector workers receive so much of their compensation in the form of pensions and other benefits? This paper presents a political economy model in which politicians compete for taxpayers' ’and government employees' votes by promising compensation packages, but some voters cannot...

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