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Walk the line : conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2011
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...
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Walk the line : conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform
Jain, Sanjay - In: Journal of development economics 111 (2014), pp. 150-166
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Essays on population heterogeneity
Devleeschauwer, Arnaud - 2004
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution : a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; Van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
La Ferrara (2005a), and have not been covered by a survey before. -- redistribution ; social security ; welfare state …
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Why doesn't the United States have a European-style welfare state?
Alesina, Alberto; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - In: Brookings papers on economic activity : BPEA (2001) 2, pp. 187-254, 273-277
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Why doesn't the US have a European-style welfare system?
Alesina, Alberto; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2001
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Why doesn't the US have a European-style welfare state?
Alesina, Alberto (contributor);  … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?
Alesina, Alberto - 2001
that redistribution is a function of the variance and skewness of the pre-tax income distribution, the volatility of income … of racial heterogeneity in the US and American political institutions. Racial animosity in the US makes redistribution to …
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The political effects of immigration: culture or economics?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why. We start from the "standard" view that immigration...
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Fractionalization and the Size of Government
Lind, Jo Thori - 2003
fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …
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