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Missing Discussions : Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition
Gitmez, A. Arda; Robinson, James A.; Shadmehr, Mehdi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Institutional constraints to counter potential abuses in the use of political power have been viewed as essential to well functioning political institutions and good public policy outcomes in the Western World since the time of ancient Greece. A sophisticated intellectual tradition emerged to...
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The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar - 2016
national state based on the political agenda effect. State centralization induces citizens of different backgrounds, interests … investments in conflict capacity. In the absence of state centralization, citizens do not necessarily band together because of … social democratic party may sometimes induce state centralization (by removing the commitment value of a non …
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Variation in State Response to Open Access : Constituent Characteristics
Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Open access, competitive exploitation can be incredibly damaging to valuable resources and the human populations that depend upon them. Even though wealth, resource rents and stocks are at stake, open access often seems to be ineffectively addressed across time and space. Institutions vary....
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods
Samwick, Andrew; Wang, Sophie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper analyzes the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the total provision of public goods in a framework in which consumers who may make such voluntary contributions to public goods via CSR are also voters who decide on the level of taxes to finance publicly provided public...
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Welfare in the Volunteer's Dilemma
Battaglini, Marco; Palfrey, Thomas R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the volunteer's dilemma in environments with heterogeneous preferences and private information. We characterize the efficiency properties of equilibrium, which is a departure from all the previous literature that focuses only on the probability of group success. While the probability of...
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Voting on Public Goods : Citizens vs. Shareholders
Döttling, Robin; Levit, Doron Y.; Malenko, Nadya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the interplay between a "one person-one vote" political system and a "one share-one vote" corporate governance regime. The political system sets Pigouvian subsidies, while corporate governance determines firm-specific public good investments. Our analysis highlights a two-way feedback...
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Organizing a Kingdom
Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by central rulers governing large territories, where administrative power needs to be delegated to local elites. We describe how economic change can motivate rulers to empower different elites and emphasize the interaction...
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More Roads or Public Transit? Insights from Measuring City-Center Accessibility
Conwell, Lucas J.; Eckert, Fabian; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We propose a theory-inspired measure of the accessibility of a city's center: the size of the surrounding area from … comes at the cost of less green space, more congestion, and worse health and pollution externalities …
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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. versus Europe
Alesina, Alberto - 2003
Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...
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Centralization, Fiscal Federalism and Private School Attendance
Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2001
attendance. In particular, the common perception that centralization of public school finance will necessarily lead to greater … centralization involves an extreme equalization of the kind observed in California. Furthermore, if centralization occurs through … schools in centralizing states imply that general public school quality does not drop as a result of such centralization …
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