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Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Guardado, Jenny; Wantchekon, Leonard - 2021

Vote-buying-or the pre-electoral distribution of private goods in exchange for support at the ballot box-is often blamed for the poor economic performance of many sub-Saharan countries. For instance, vote-buying may undermine accountability and the implementation of sound development policies by...

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It worked in China, so why not in Africa? The political economy challenge of special economic zones

Farole, Thomas; Moberg, Lotta - 2014

African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special economic zones fall well below...

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Social ties, clientelism, and the poor's expectations of future service provision: Receiving more, expecting less?

Jöst, Prisca; Lust-Okar, Ellen - 2021

Are candidates who hand out clientelistic goods at election time less likely to provide services once they take office? This paper examines the poor's expectations of future service provision by candidates who hand out money and other goods versus those who do not. We hypothesize that the poor's...

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Contract clientelism: How infrastructure contracts fund vote-buying

Holland, Alisha C.; Freeman, Will - 2021

Where does the money come from to buy votes? We argue that an important source of funds for vote-buying comes from 'contract clientelism', or the provision of public contracts to private firms in exchange for campaign donations. Using quantitative data on Colombian infrastructure contracts, we...

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The loser's long curse: Electoral consequences of a class conflict

Meriläinen, Jaakko; Mitrunen, Matti - 2022

This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century period between the World Wars. The electoral...

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Who's the alien? Xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa

Duponchel, Marguerite - 2013

In May 2008, South Africa became the theatre of widespread violent attacks against undesirable 'outsiders'. Over 60 were killed, hundreds wounded, and tens of thousands displaced. This analysis aims at identifying the characteristics of the victims in an attempt to portray the 'alien' using...

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Crosscutting cleavages and ethno-communal violence: Evidence from Indonesia in the post-Suharto era

Gubler, Joshua R.; Selway, Joel Sawat; Varshney, Ashutosh - 2016

that the same logic does not apply to lower-scale group violence such as riots, which differ in such a way that … argument by analysing Muslim-Christian violence in the post-Suharto era, combining a new subnational data set of ethno …-income and ethnogeographic crosscuttingness with a new and comprehensive subnational data set of violence in Indonesia. Our …

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Conflict and development: Recent research advances and future agendas

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017

analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …

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Cultivating change: the long-term impact of forced labour in Mozambique

Bove, Margherita; Caeiro, Rute Martins; Coelho, Rachel; … - 2024

Following the abolition of slavery, various forms of compulsory labour were adopted by colonial powers to develop their economies. This paper analyses the contemporary consequences of compulsory cotton production-a forced labour system that operated in colonial Mozambique from 1926 to 1961....

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Riots and social capital in urban India

Aghajanian, Alia; Justino, Patricia; Tranchant, Jean-Pierre - 2020

potential future communal violence in socially fragmented contexts where conflicting social groups live alongside each other. …

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