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One Road to Riches?
How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development
Av Haakon Gjerløw, Carl Henrik Knutsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponents of this "stateness-first" argument anticipate that democratization before state building yields poor development outcomes. In this Element, we …
Representation and Taxation in the American South, 1820-1910
Av Jeffrey Jensen, Giuliana Pardelli m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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We explain and document state-level fiscal developments in American Southern states from 1820-1910, focusing on their main source of revenue, progressive property taxes borne primarily by economic elites. The fourteen states in our analysis were characterized by severe economic exploitation of the …
Democratization and the State
Competence, Control, and Performance in Indonesia's Civil Service
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Does democratization lead to more meritocracy in the civil service? The Element argues that electoral accountability increases the value of competence over personal loyalty in the civil service. While this resembles an application of merit principles, it does not automatically reduce patronage …
Political Lotteries and Democracy
Av Alexandra Cirone, Brenda Van Coppenolle
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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Across history, lotteries were used in political selection to combat corruption, ideological polarization, and inequity in access to governance. Today, democracy seems to be facing similar challenges - are lotteries a potential solution? This Element responds to recent calls to incorporate …
The Puzzle of Clientelism
Political Discretion and Elections Around the World
Av Miriam A. Golden, Eugenia Nazrullaeva
Häftad, 2023
282 kr
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This Element presents newly-collected cross-national data on reelection rates of lower house national legislators from almost 100 democracies around the world. Reelection rates are low/high in countries where clientelism and vote buying are high/low. Drawing on theory developed to study lobbying, …
The Political Economy of China's Imperial Examination System
Av Erik H. Wang, Clair Z. Yang
Häftad, 2025
259 kr
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Just as councils and assemblies were central to European polities for centuries, the Imperial Examination System (Keju) constituted the cornerstone of state institutions in China. This Element argues that Keju contributed to political stability, and its emergence was a process, not a shock, with …
Representation and Taxation in the American South, 1820-1910
Av Jeffrey Jensen, Giuliana Pardelli m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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We explain and document state-level fiscal developments in American Southern states from 1820-1910, focusing on their main source of revenue, progressive property taxes borne primarily by economic elites. The fourteen states in our analysis were characterized by severe economic exploitation of the …
Democracy in Trouble
Democratic Resilience and Breakdown from 1900 to 2022
Av Myles Williamson, Christopher Akor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. We focus on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. To understand how these cases survived, we pair them with similar cases …
Democracy in Trouble
Democratic Resilience and Breakdown from 1900 to 2022
Av Myles Williamson, Christopher Akor m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. We focus on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. To understand how these cases survived, we pair them with similar cases …
How Settlers Shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
Economic Development, Regime Change, and State Formation, 800-1800
Av Jonathan Stavnsk'r Doucette
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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This Element argues that settlers from Western Europe shaped European state formation and transformed the political and economic fate of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia between 800 and 1800. While existing work on European colonization focuses on overseas settlers, and studies of Europe's …
How Settlers Shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
Economic Development, Regime Change, and State Formation, 800-1800
Av Jonathan Stavnsk'r Doucette
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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This Element argues that settlers from Western Europe shaped European state formation and transformed the political and economic fate of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia between 800 and 1800. While existing work on European colonization focuses on overseas settlers, and studies of Europe's …
Political Lotteries and Democracy
Av Alexandra Cirone, Brenda Van Coppenolle
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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Across history, lotteries were used in political selection to combat corruption, ideological polarization, and inequity in access to governance. Today, democracy seems to be facing similar challenges - are lotteries a potential solution? This Element responds to recent calls to incorporate …
Outsourcing Surveillance
Online Opinion Management in China
Av Lynette Ong, Huihua Nie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
774 kr
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The digital age has afforded the governments new technologies of control, allowing them to co-opt, pre-empt and repress dissent. But, what if they lack the technical capacity to access digital tools of control? In what ways have digital technologies altered the way governments conduct statecraft? …
Outsourcing Surveillance
Online Opinion Management in China
Av Lynette Ong, Huihua Nie m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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The digital age has afforded the governments new technologies of control, allowing them to co-opt, pre-empt and repress dissent. But, what if they lack the technical capacity to access digital tools of control? In what ways have digital technologies altered the way governments conduct statecraft? …
The Political Economy of China's Imperial Examination System
Av Erik H. Wang, Clair Z. Yang
Inbunden, 2025
806 kr
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Just as councils and assemblies were central to European polities for centuries, the Imperial Examination System (Keju) constituted the cornerstone of state institutions in China. This Element argues that Keju contributed to political stability, and its emergence was a process, not a shock, with …
State Capacity and Economic Development
Present and Past
Häftad, 2017
308 kr
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State capacity - the government's ability to accomplish its intended policy goals - plays an important role in market-oriented economic development today. Yet state capacity improvements are often difficult to achieve. This Element analyzes the historical origins of state capacity. It evaluates …
Nativism and Economic Integration across the Developing World
Collision and Accommodation
Av Rikhil R. Bhavnani, Bethany Lacina
Häftad, 2019
317 kr
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Migration and nativism are explosive issues in Europe and North America. Less well-known is the tumult that soaring migration is creating in the politics of developing countries. The key difference between anti-migrant politics in developed and developing countries is that domestic migration - not …
Lynching and Local Justice
Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States
Av Danielle F. Jung, Dara Kay Cohen
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching - lethal, extralegal group violence to punish offenses to the community - become an acceptable practice? We argue lynching emerges when neither the state nor its …
Reform and Rebellion in Weak States
Av Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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Throughout history, reform has provoked rebellion - not just by the losers from reform, but also among its intended beneficiaries. Finkel and Gehlbach emphasize that, especially in weak states, reform often must be implemented by local actors with a stake in the status quo. In this setting, the …
A Moral Political Economy
Present, Past, and Future
Av Federica Carugati, Margaret Levi
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Economies - and the government institutions that support them - reflect a moral and political choice, a choice we can make and remake. Since the dawn of industrialization and democratization in the late eighteenth century, there has been a succession of political economic frameworks, reflecting …
Geography, Capacity, and Inequality
Spatial Inequality
Av Pablo Beramendi, Melissa Rogers
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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In this Element, we investigate how economic geography, the distribution of subnational economic endowments within a nation, shapes long-run patterns of inequality through its impact on the development of fiscal capacity. We present an argument that links economic geography to capacity through …
The Economic Origin of Political Parties
Av Christopher Kam, Adlai Newson
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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This Element examines how the changing economic basis of parliamentary elections in nineteenth century England and Wales contributed to the development of modern parties and elections. Even after the 1832 Reform Act expanded the British electorate, elections in many constituencies went uncontested, …
Backsliding
Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World
Av Stephan Haggard, Robert Kaufman
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail political and civil liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral …
Reforming to Survive
The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies
Av Magnus B. Rasmussen, Carl Henrik Knutsen
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
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This Element details how elites provide policy concessions when they face credible threats of revolution. Specifically, the authors discuss how the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent formation of Comintern enhanced elites' perceptions of revolutionary threat by affecting the capacity …
