Research on the economic roots of democracy tends to focus on income, inequality, education, and/or urbanization. I hypothesize that industrialization — defined as a large share of employment in manufacturing — is more important for democracy. Using novel manufacturing employment data for...

The nineteenth century was a time of substantial changes in the patterns of economic growth and the structure of and allocation of political rights. The concurrence of these changes is not coincidental. We develop a model in which ideological parties representing elites use the allocation of...

Purpose - This paper investigates the effect of state-society relations on the industrially-related growth paths of developed countries. Design/methodology/approach - It introduces a novel theoretical framework, the state-business-labor relations (SBLR) framework, where four main actors are...

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

This paper contrasts and compares the arguments of the unequal interdependence framework with the dependency theories on the sources of dichotomy between the core and the periphery. It also contrasts their arguments on the non-feasibility of the export-oriented strategy or the...

We model the decision problem of a parent who chooses an occupation and teaches patience to her children. The two choices are linked by a strategic complementarity: patient individuals choose occupations with a steep income profile; a steep income profile, in turn, leads to a strong incentive to...

This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into manufacturing, and the sector diversified and upgraded its...

This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into manufacturing, and the sector diversified and upgraded its...

The main goal of this paper is to provide an integrated overview of the literature devoted to identifying the causes of the British industrial revolution. Why did the industrial revolution, a fascinating and multifaceted event which brought about modern economic growth, occur in...