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Autocrats and Skyscrapers: Modern White Elephants in Dictatorships
(2017)
Political leaders often have private incentives to pursue expensive and socially wasteful "white elephant" projects. Our argument highlights that weak accountability mechanisms allow autocratic leaders to more easily realize ...
Stairways to Denmark: Does the Sequence of State-building and Democratization Matter for Economic Development?
(2018)
Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. We discuss the assumptions that this prominent "stateness-first" argument rests upon and how ...