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Informational boundaries of the state
Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024
Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity - by, for instance, using the state's fiscal or extractive capacity as a proxy for its overall capacity. Yet, this input or extractive view of state capacity falls short, especially since...
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Informational boundaries of the state
Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024
Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity - by, for instance, using the state's fiscal or extractive capacity as a proxy for its overall capacity. Yet, this input or extractive view of state capacity falls short, especially since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463568
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Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755330
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Window-dressing and lobbying in performance-budgeting: A model for the public sector
Bischoff, Ivo; Blaeschke, Frédéric - 2012
Performance budgeting schemes in the public sector have to operate with imperfect performance measures. We argue that these imperfections lead to wasteful fund-seeking (window dressing and lobbying) by the administrative units that produce public services. We develop a game-theoretical model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294352
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The Impact of Intergovernmental Grants on Cost Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from German Municipalities
Kalb, Alexander - 2008
In this paper we use a simple bureaucracy model of fiscal illusion to analyze the impact of intergovernmental grants on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298062
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The citizen-candidate model with imperfect policy control
Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2012
We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the...
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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the 'corruptibility' of bureaucrats in each case. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330459
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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
In many transition economies, insiders controlled state-owned firms, de facto. For such firms, we model the decision about privatization method, focusing on the choice between free distribution (so called ‘mass privatization’) and management-employee buyouts. We incorporate a political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003342111
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The citizen-candidate model with imperfect policy control
Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2012
the cost of running as a candidate is arbitrarily small. -- elections ; polarization ; strategic delegation ; bureaucracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571743
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Petty corruption and citizen feedback
Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015
Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate feedback in public officials' incentives. The main novelty of our proposal is to allow citizens to directly influence officials' pay. We consider a situation in which entrepreneurs...
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