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Resources for Sale: Corruption, Democracy and the Natural Resource Curse [PDF]

A puzzling piece of empirical evidence suggests that resource-abundant countries tend to grow slower than their resource-poor counterparts. We attempt to explain this phenomenon by developing a lobbying game in which rent seeking firms interact with ...
Erwin Bulte, Richard Damania
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Riots, coups and civil war : revisiting the greed and grievance debate [PDF]

The most influential recent work on the determinants of civil wars found the factors associated with the grievance motivation to be largely irrelevant.
Bodea, Cristina, Elbadawi, Ibrahim A.
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Bevolent Planners, Malevolent Dictators and Democratic Voters [PDF]

We study the size of government and of GDP, under autocratic and democratic rule, respectively. It turns out that first, both democratic and authoritarian rulers apply the Samuelson (1954) criterion when deciding on productive public goods.
Agell, Jonas, Persson, Mats
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Ideology and endogenous constitutions. [PDF]

We study a legislature where decisions are made by playing an agenda-setting game. Legislators are concerned about their electoral prospects but they are also genuinely concerned for the legislature to make the correct decision.
Riboni, Alessandro
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Autocracy, democracy, bureaucracy, or monopoly: can you judge a government by its size? [PDF]

We develop a simple theoretical framework to examine on an integrated basis how the form of government affects its power and size. The analytical framework abstracts from distortions that arise from the means ofgovernment finance and separates government
Jason L. Saving, Stephen P. A. Brown
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Autocratic Legalism, Partisanship, and Popular Legitimation in Authoritarian Cameroon. [PDF]