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Democratisation under diversity : theory and evidence from Indonesian communities

Mitra, Anirban; Pal, Sarmistha - 2020

We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where … local institutions condition cooperative behaviour across ethnic groups. The theory we develop highlights the role of the … local elite in lobbying for policies which favour them in a decentralised setting. The differences in preferences over …

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When Political Change Signals Community Resolve? Fiscal Decentralization, Grassroots Politics and Local Development

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2019

This paper examines how the introduction of the Fiscal Decentralization (FD) at the turn of the Century that offered … greater freedom in local governance affected grassroots politics and local development in Indonesia. We find that socio …

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Infrastructure, institutions and identity : determinants of regional development : empirical evidence from Germany

Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020

Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...

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Does local development influence outmigration decisions? : evidence from Indonesia

Tiwari, Smriti - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 93 (2017), pp. 108-124

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The influence of the ethnic diversity on the regional development as exemplified by the Silesian autochthonous population in Poland

Łukaniszyn-Domaszewska, Katarzyna; Jończy, Romuald - In: European research studies 24 (2021) 2B, pp. 170-188

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Organizing a Kingdom

Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by central rulers governing large territories, where administrative power needs to be delegated to local elites. We describe how economic change can motivate rulers to empower different elites and emphasize the interaction...

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