-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on … different associated institutions. The choice of colonization strategy was, at least in part, determined by whether Europeans … likely to set up worse (extractive) institutions. These early institutions persisted to the present. We document evidence …

therefore focus on what happens to the quality of judicial institutions and political corruption around coup attempts and other …, our results suggest that successful coups are associated with degradation of institutions, with successful military coups …

institutions trump all other potential determinants of development. For given effects of institutional quality, our empirical … from our estimates that implementing good institutions appears to be necessary but not sufficient to generate a persistent …

This research explores the origins of the variation in the prevalence and nature of political institutions across globe … of political institutions across regions and societies. The study establishes that, while human diversity has amplified … the beneficial e.ects of institutions, mitigating the adverse e.ects of non-cohesiveness, its simultaneous contribution to …