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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa
Rainer, Ilia - 2012
The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100130
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How is Power Shared in Africa?
Francois, Patrick - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100131
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Like Me, Buy Me : The Effect of Soft Power on Exports
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2015
. Succinctly, countries receive a commercial return on their soft power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015974
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State Capacity, Conflict and Development
Besley, Timothy J. - 2010
We report on an on-going project, which asks a number of questions relevant to the study of state capacity. What are the main economic and political determinants of the state's capacity to raise revenue and support private markets? How do risks of violent conflict affect the incentives to invest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152438
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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy
de la Croix, David - 2007
political power can lead to multiple equilibria in the determination of public education spending. The main predictions of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776201
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Political Dynasties
Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2007
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 …
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Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining
Ali, Syed Nageeb - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between the concentration of political power in legislative bargaining and the … limit the concentration of power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056192
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The Injustice of Inequality
Glaeser, Edward L.; Scheinkman, José; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
In many countries, the operation of legal, political and regulatory institutions is subverted by the wealthy and the politically powerful for their own benefit. This subversion takes the form of corruption, intimidation, and other forms of influence. We present a model of such institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220922
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On the Design of Hierarchies : Coordination Versus Specialization
Hart, Oliver; Moore, John - 2021
We develop a model of hierarchies based on the allocation of authority. A firm's owners have ultimate authority over a firm's decisions, but they have limited time or capacity to exercise this authority. Hence owners must delegate authority to subordinates. However, these subordinates also have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213065
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Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
Cohen, Lauren - 2010
This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146270