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Making Autocracy Work
Besley, Timothy J.; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136611
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Making Autocracy Work
Besley, Timothy; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2007
One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangementsshape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - theforces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simpletheoretical model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151135
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Making Autocracy Work
Besley, Timothy J.; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - 2008
One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218461
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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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Coups, regime transitions, and institutional change
Bennett, Daniel L.; Bjørnskov, Christian; Gohmann, … - 2019
Coups and regime transitions are events that typically are intended to change the basic institutional framework of a country. Which specific policies change and the consequences of these changes nevertheless remains largely unknown. Change after a coup or transition implies that some form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021629
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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Religious origins of democracies and dictatorships
Grigoriadis, Theocharis - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2013
democracy and the Russian-Orthodox monastery as the collective of dictatorship. Assuming a collectivist economy, I solve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956182
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Religious origins of democracies and dictatorships
Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013
democracy and the Russian-Orthodox monastery as the collective of dictatorship. Assuming a collectivist economy, I solve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324149
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Religious origins of democracies and dictatorships
Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013
democracy and the Russian-Orthodox monastery as the collective of dictatorship. Assuming a collectivist economy, I solve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189314