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Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - 2014

This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact...

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All or Nothing: State Capacity and Optimal Public Goods Provision

Bierbrauer, Felix; Winkelmann, Justus - 2018

We study the provision of public goods. Different public goods can be bundled provided there is enough capacity, i.e. resources to pay for all the public goods in the bundle. The analysis focuses on the all-or-nothing-mechanism: Expand provision as much as resource feasible if no one vetoes -...

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Performative State Capacity and Climate (In)Action

Feld, Immanuel; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2024

Climate action requires significant public- and private sector investment to achieve meaningful reductions in carbon emissions. This paper documents that large-scale austerity, coupled with barriers to flows of data and a lack of (digital) skills in (local) government, may have been a...

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Informational Boundaries of the State

Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024

Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity – by, for instance, using the state's fiscal or extractive capacity as a proxy for its overall capacity. Yet, this input or extractive view of state capacity falls short, especially since...

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State Capacity, National Economic Policies and Local Development: The Russian State in the Southern Urals

Asmus, Gerda; Franck, Raphaël - 2022

This study analyzes how state capacity shapes the local impact of national policies by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the regional expansion of the state. It uses the local discontinuity created by the boundary of the largest peasant rebellion in 18th century Russia where the state...

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Engineering Crises: Favoritism and Strategic Fiscal Indiscipline

Saint-Paul, Gilles; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2017

If people understand that some macroeconomic policies are unsustainable, why would they vote for them in the first place? We develop a political economy theory of the endogenous emergence of fiscal crises, based on the idea that the adjustment mechanism to a crisis favors some social groups,...

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The Political Economy of Industrial Policy

Juhász, Réka; Lane, Nathan - 2024

We examine the ways in which political realities shape industrial policy through the lens of modern political economy. We consider two broad “governance constraints”: i) the political forces that shape how industrial policy is chosen and ii) the ways in which state capacity affects...

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A Lipsetian Theory of Democratization: Development, Education, Inequality, and Resources

Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo Giovanni; Prieur, … - 2016

The paper reexamines Lipset’s theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative … relationship between inequality and democratization. Furthermore, we obtain new insights on the resources-curse hypothesis and on …

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Managing, Inducing, and Preventing Regime Shifts: A Review of the Literature

Long, Ngo Van - 2019

instruments such as repression, redistribution, and gradual democratization. Section 5 reviews models of dynamic games in resource …

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Franchise Extension and Fiscal Structure in the United Kingdom 1820-1913: A New Test of the Redistribution Hypothesis

Aidt, Toke; Winer, Stanley L.; Zhang, Peng - 2020

We study the effect of franchise extension on the fiscal structure of central and local governments in the United Kingdom between 1820 and 1913 to revisit the Redistribution Hypothesis - the prediction that franchise extension causes an increase in state-sponsored redistribution. We adopt a...

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