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The social foundations of the bureaucratic order
Kallinikos, Jannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
role patterns by which it is made. The historically unique adaptive capacity of bureaucracy remains though hidden behind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928777
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Management of bureaucrats and public service delivery: evidence from the Nigerian civil service
Rasul, Imran; Rogger, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We study how the management practices that bureaucrats operate under, correlate to the quantity and quality of public services delivered. We do so in a developing country context, exploiting data from the Nigerian Civil Service linking public sector organizations to the projects they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126248
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884658
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928605
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928691
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928713
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126279
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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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