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Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743449
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Walk the line: Conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W - In: Journal of Development Economics 111 (2014) C, pp. 150-166
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078011
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Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010758506
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Deceptive Redistribution
Alder, Simeon; Ordonez, Guillermo - Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame - 2012
redistribution that our model generates match salient stylized facts. In contrast to the standard view that inefficiencies are … unavoidable when implementing redistributive policies, we argue that redistribution may be a means to disguise inefficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607408
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Democratization or Repression?
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
regime changes are often followed by redistribution to the poor at the expense of the former elite. We argue that the reason …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666486
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The survival of the welfare state
Hassler, John; Mora, José V. Rodríguez; Storesletten, … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
repeated voting, where agents vote over distortionary income redistribution. The key feature of the theory is that the future … constituency of redistributive policies depends positively on the current level of redistribution, since this affects both private … will vote for zero redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772313
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Why is there no Revolution in North-Korea? The Political Economy of Revolution Revisited
Apolte, Thomas - Institut für Siedlungs- und Wohnungswesen, …
In this paper the political economy of revolutions is revisited, as it has been developed and applied in a number of publications by Acemoglu and Robinson. We criticize the fact that these authors abstract from collective-action problems and focus on inequality of income or wealth instead. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734053
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The Survival of the Welfare State
Hassler, John; Mora, José V Rodríguez; Storesletten, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
voting, where agents vote over income redistribution. The key feature of the theory is that the future constituency of … redistributive policies depends positively on the current level of redistribution, since this affects both private investments and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656349
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A Theory of Political Transitions
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
relationship between inequality and redistribution is nonmonotonic; societies with intermediate levels of inequality consolidate … democracy and redistribute more than both very equal and very unequal countries. We also show that asset redistribution, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661707
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A Theory of Political Transitions
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1999
relationship between inequality and redistribution is nonmonotonic; societies with intermediate levels of unequality consolidate … democracy and redistribute more than both very equal and very unequal countries. We also show that asset redistribution, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005574256