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The Soeharto Era: From Beginning to End
Mcledo, Ross H - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
of 'private taxation' from which it prospers eventually becomes intolerable; rents are diluted as franchise membership is …The paper develops a simple model of the Soeharto 'franchise', in which the coercive power of government was deployed … in the interests of the president, his family, his business cronies and key officials within the franchise. The franchise …
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Institutionalized Public Sector Corruption : A Legacy of the Soeharto Franchise
McLeod, Ross - 2012
Indonesia, private sector salaries are highly progressive with respect to increasing levels of responsibility, whereas the civil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114216
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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”
Payson, Steven - 2019
The word “scapegoat” is defined as “a person made to bear the blame for others,” and similarly, “scapegoatism” refers to “the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and...
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The urgent need for an economics of "hategoatism"
Payson, Steven - 2019
The word "scapegoat" is defined as "a person made to bear the blame for others," and similarly, "scapegoatism" refers to "the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself" (Collins English Dictionary and Dictionary.com,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152185
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Partisan Competition, Growth and the Franchise
Llavador, Humberto; Oxoby, Robert J. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004
significant fluctuations in the structure of and allocation of political rights. Through successive franchise extensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851332
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Partisan competition, growth and the franchise
Llavador, Humberto; Oxoby, Robert - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003
We present an argument for changes in the franchise in which an elite split along economic interests use the suffrage … analyze the effects of franchise changes on economic growth. We identify in the social structure of society an explanation for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772511
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Creating Capitalism: Politics, Reforms, and Economic Performance
Wykoff, Frank - 2001
Building on a model that integrates reforms into exogenous and endogenous growth models, this paper designs an econometric model of the interplay between economic reform measures, political decisions and economic performance. Several key hypotheses about transition are tested using two-stage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334607
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Economic Growth and Institutional Reform in Modern Monarchies and Republics : A Historical Cross-Country Perspective 1820-2000
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2008
Standard theoretical arguments suggest that republics ought to grow faster than monarchies and experience lower transitional costs following reforms. We employ a panel of 27 countries observed from 1820-2000 to explore whether regime types and institutional reforms have differential growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724722
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Creating capitalism : politics, reforms, and economic performance ; an econometric analysis of six countries from 1989-1999
Wykoff, Frank C. - 2001
Building on a model that integrates reforms into exogenous and endogenous growth models, this paper designs an econometric model of the interplay between economic reform measures, political decisions and economic performance. Several key hypotheses about transition are tested using two-stage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568721
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Economic Growth and Institutional Reform in Modern Monarchies and Republics: A Historical Cross-Country Perspective 1820-2000
Bjørnskov, Christian; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 170 (2014) 3, pp. 453-481
Conventional arguments suggest that republics ought to grow faster than monarchies and experience lower transitional costs following reforms. We employ a panel of 27 countries observed from 1820 to 2000 to estimate these differences. Results show no significant growth differences between the two...
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