State capacity, manufacturing and civil conflict [PDF]
In this note we empirically analyze the link between state capacity and civil conflict via the manufacturing sector, which is the source of wealth for emerging new elite interested in obtaining political representation, and is the outcome of a new ...
Jacopo Costa, Roberto Ricciuti
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Democratization as a cost-saving device [PDF]
We propose a theoretical analysis of democratization processes in which an elite extends the franchise to the poor when threatened with a revo- lution. The poor could govern without changing the political system by maintaining a continuous revolutionary ...
Luis Angeles
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The Simple Analytics of Elite Behaviour Under Limited State Capacity [PDF]
This paper discusses the issue of taxation and redistribution in economies dominated by Elites with limited state capacity. Within a simple aggregate framework, we discuss the political economy incentives of Elites to tax, redistribute and increase state
Bourguignon, Francois, Verdier, Thierry
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Perceptions of Indonesian Politics in the Run-up to the 2009 General Election [PDF]
, 2008 Indonesia has had ten years of constitutional democracy since the end of the Suharto era. In 2009 the country heads again to a national election. In the lead-up period the major parties have been pressing not only to reduce the number of parties ...
Hastjarjo, Sri +3 more
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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development [PDF]
This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of dierent production factors, and political conicts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs.
Fali Huang
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Cучасна українська політико-владна еліта і проблеми національної самоідентифікації (He modern Ukrainian political and power elite and the problem of national self-identificat) [PDF]
, 2017 Стаття присвячена ролі національної самоідентифікації політико-владної еліти на сучасному етапі державотворення в Україні. Розкрито сутність понять «ідентифікація», «національна ідентифікація», показано стан національної самосвідомості, україномовної ...
Пірен, М. (M. Piren)
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The Transition to Democracy : Collective Action and Intra-elite Confict [PDF]
This paper studies how intra-elite confict results in transition to democracy, characterized as both franchise extension to, and lowering the individual cost of collective political action for, an initially disorganized non-elite.
Ghosal, Sayantan, Proto, Eugenio
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Reshaping Political Space? The Impact of the Armed Insurgency in the Central African Republic on Political Parties and Representation [PDF]
This paper analyzes the declining importance of political parties in the Central African Republic (CAR). It argues that the problematic attitude of elites who are fluctuating between violent and peaceful behavior in order to further their own careers is ...
Andreas Mehler
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Endowments, Coercion, and the Historical Containment of Education [PDF]
Distinguishing the role of coercive labor and political institutions from the effects of economic inequality levels and populations’ ethno-linguistic compositions in explaining the diverging patterns of development across the Americas has remained a ...
Gustavo J Bobonis
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Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa [PDF]
South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy stands as one of the past century’s most important political events. The transition has been successful to this point because the new constitution adopted a form of federal governance that has been ...
Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Robert P. Inman
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