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The political economy of government responsiveness: theory and evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

The determinants of government responsiveness to its citizens is a key issue in political economy. Here we develop a model based on the solution of political agency problems. Having a more informed an politically active electorate strengthens incentives for governments to be responsive. This...

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Democracy and education spending: has Africa's move to multiparty elections made a difference to policy?

Stasavage, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

effects. They are also supported by evidence from recent country cases. Though the reemergence of multiparty democracy in …

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Emerging world order? From multipolarity to multilateralism in the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF

Wade, Robert H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Many developing and transitional countries have grown faster than advanced countries in the past decade, resulting in a shift in the distribution of world income in their favor. China is now the second largest economy in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Japan. As the relative...

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Making autocracy work

Besley, Timothy; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of...

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Environmentalism, democracy, and pollution control

Fredriksson, Per G.; Neumayer, Eric; Damania, Richard; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper makes two empirical contributions to the literature, based on predictions generated by a lobby group model. First, we investigate how environmental lobby groups affect the determination of environmental policy in rich and developing countries. Second, we explore the interaction...

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Liberalization, globalization and the dynamics of democracy in India

Nachane, Dilip M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

between marketization and democracy. The first is more direct, stemming from the fact of both systems sharing certain values … and attitudes in common. But there is also a second more indirect chain from marketization to democracy, which is … (iii) from material development to social welfare and democracy. We examine each of these sub-links in detail with a view …

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Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia’s break up

Costa-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …

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Political economy, power and new media

Mansell, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This article suggests that it is timely to revitalise studies in the tradition of the political economy of media and communications in order to develop a critical and comprehensive analysis of the social and economic dynamics of the production and consumption of new media. Specifically, a...

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Read my lips : the political economy of information transmission

Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

The paper studies credible information transmission by governments. A group of heterogenous individuals have to make private investment and labour supply decisions while relying on the government for information about investment returns. The government consists of an elected citizen who chooses...

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A swing-state theory of trade protection in the electoral college

Muûls, Mirabelle; Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper develops an infinite-horizon, political agency model with a continuum of political districts, in which incumbent politicians can improve their re-election probability by attracting swing voters in key states through strategic trade protection. A unique equilibrium is shown to exist...

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