Renewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India's Maoist Belt
In: Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 302
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In: Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 302
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In: Brookings Global Economy and Development Working Paper No. 17
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w13992
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In: American journal of political science, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 897-907
ISSN: 1540-5907
Numerous analyses have been conducted on how political institutions affect economic performance. In recent years the emphasis has been on a causal logic that emphasizes institutional obstacles to policy change, such as those presented by multiple veto points. This has especially been the case when it comes to the important question of how political institutions influence governments' responses to exogenous economic shocks. We make the case for a substantial broadening of focus and show that when it comes to a major type of exogenous shock, a forced exchange‐rate devaluation, variations in the breadth of accountability of the chief executive are more robustly associated with the post‐shock growth recovery than variations in obstacles to policy change. We first argue that the size of the winning coalition will be positively associated with growth recoveries following forced devaluations. We then use a newly developed measure of the size of the winning coalition to test our claim. Our statistical analysis is based on a study of the responses of 44 countries to forced exchange‐rate devaluations in the late 1990s.
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 897-907
ISSN: 0092-5853
In: Journal of political economy, Band 112, Heft 4, S. 725-753
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: Journal of political economy, Band 112, Heft 4, S. 725-753
ISSN: 0022-3808
Estimating the impact of economic conditions on the likelihood of civil conflict is difficult because of endogeneity & omitted variable bias. We use rainfall variation as an instrumental variable for economic growth in 41 African countries during 1981 99. Growth is strongly negatively related to civil conflict: a negative growth shock of five percentage points increases the likelihood of conflict by one-half the following year. We attempt to rule out other channels through which rainfall may affect conflict. Surprisingly, the impact of growth shocks on conflict is not significantly different in richer, more democratic, or more ethnically diverse countries. 6 Tables, 2 Figures, 2 Appendixes, 44 References. Adapted from the source document.
In: Journal of political economy, Band 125, Heft 2, S. 478-526
ISSN: 1537-534X
Social capital is often associated with desirable political and economic outcomes. This paper contributes to a growing literature on its "dark side". We examine the role of social capital in the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We analyze Nazi Party entry in a cross-section of cities, and show that dense networks of civic associations such as bowling clubs, choirs, and animal breeders went hand-in-hand with a rapid rise of the Nazi Party. Towns with one standard deviation higher association density saw at least one-third faster entry. All types of associations - veteran associations and non-military clubs, "bridging" and "bonding" associations - positively predict NS Party entry. Party membership, in turn, predicts electoral success. These results suggest that social capital aided the rise of the Nazi movement that ultimately destroyed Germany's first democracy. We also show that the effects of social capital were more important in the starting phase of the Nazi movement, and in towns less sympathetic to its message.
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In: University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 147
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In: University of Zurich, UBS International Center of Economics in Society, Working Paper No. 7
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In: Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w19201
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9595
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In: Economics & politics, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 59-74
ISSN: 0954-1985