This paper presents new evidence on the power sharing layout of national political elites in a panel of African … monolithically controlling power, we show that African ruling coalitions are large and that political power is allocated …

. Succinctly, countries receive a commercial return on their soft power …

political power decides the allocation of resources. We show that Pareto efficient allocations take a quasi-Markovian structure … and can be represented recursively as a function of the identity of the group in power and updated Pareto weights. For … disappear and labor supply and consumption levels fluctuate over time. The labor supply of groups that are not in power are …

political power can lead to multiple equilibria in the determination of public education spending. The main predictions of the …

is causal: a longer period in power increases the chance that a person may start (or continue) a political dynasty …. Therefore, dynastic political power is self-perpetuating in that a positive exogenous shock to a person's political power has … persistent effects through posterior dynastic attainment. In politics, power begets power …

political power. The ruling coalition consists of a subset of the individuals in the society and decides the distribution of …-transferable utility cooperative game. In all cases, the nature of the ruling coalition is determined by the power constraint, which …

society consists of rich and poor individuals. The rich are initially in power, but expect to transition to democracy, which … rents for bureaucrats than would an efficient state structure. When the poor come to power in democracy, they will reform …

system, and second, that presidents have more power with respect to their own coalition than prime ministers do. These … setting power to another group. We argue that the model is consistent with a great deal of qualitative information about …