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Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion, and Bureaucratic Capacity

Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we investigate how “civil service” personnel management interacts with bureaucratic discretion to create high capacity, expert bureaucracies populated by policy-motivated agents. We build a model in which bureaucrats may invest in (relationship specific) policy expertise, and...

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Does Rapid Liberalization Increase Corruption?

Tavares, Samia - EconWPA - 2005

Corruption scandals seem to abound in countries that have recently undergone reform. Despite the proliferation of stories in the news media, no one has examined whether reform—be it democratization or economic liberalization or both—actually causes an increase in corruption. Theory provides...

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Credible Communication in Dynastic Government

Lagunoff, Roger - EconWPA - 2002

This paper examines the mechanics of intertemporal information provision in {\em dynastic governments}. It has been suggested that ``horizontal accountability," i.e., a system of governance where auditing functions lie outside the executive branch, can ensure credible disclosure of information....

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How Globalisation Improves Governance

Bonaglia, Fecerico; Macedo, Jorge Braga de; Bussolo, … - EconWPA - 2002

Globalisation, governance and economic performance affect each other in very complex mutual relationships. In this paper, we establish a clear and well-circumscribed hypothesis: “is there an effect of globalisation on governance?” To test this hypothesis or, even more specifically, to test...

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Whose Ear (or Arm) to Bend? Information Sources and Venue Choice in Policy Making

Boehmke, Frederick J.; Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005

Important conceptualizations of both interest groups and bureaucratic agencies suggest that these institutions provide legislatures with greater information for use in policy making. Yet little is known about how these information sources interact in the policy process as a whole. In this paper...

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Investment and Instability

Campos, Nauro F.; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - EconWPA - 2001

Although recet research has repeatedly found a negative association between investment and socio-political instability (SPI), the existence and direction of causality between these two variables has not yet been investigated. We construct an index of SPI for non-overlaping five-years periods...

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WHO IS AFRAID OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY?

Campos, Nauro F.; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - EconWPA - 2001

An unstable macroeconomic environment is often regarded as detrimental to economic growth. Among the sources … causal and negative long-run relationship between political instability and economic growth but finds no such relationship … the African countries from their samples, results of a negative relation between SPI and growth would founder. …

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Complex dynamics in a Pasinetti-Solow model of growth and distribution

Commendatore, Pasquale - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper, we study some of the properties of a discrete-time version of the two-class model of growth and …

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Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004

This research develops a unified growth theory that captures the transition from the domination of geographical factors … agrarian to an industrial economy generating diverging growth patterns across countries. Furthermore, the qualitative change in …

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Trading Population for Productivity

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - EconWPA - 2004

asymmetrically. The gains from trade were channeled towards population growth in non- industrial nations while in the industrial … nations they were directed towards investment in education and growth in output per capita. International trade enhanced the … comparative disadvantage in the production of skilled intensive goods. The focus on the interaction between population growth and …

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