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Clientelism, Public Goods Provision, and Governance
(2021-07)
It is widely believed that clientelism—the giving of material goods in return for electoral support—is associated with poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of ...
On Revolutions
(2018)
Sometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swift and profound change. Historians have often referred to such changes as "revolutions" and, though they have identied many of them, they have rarely ...
Party Strength and Economic Growth
(2015-09)
This study argues that strong parties play a critical role in fostering economic development. The theory explores how parties broaden the constituencies to which policy makers respond and help politicians to solve coordination ...
Vote Buying Is A Good Sign: Alternate Tactics of Fraud in Africa 1986-2012
(2015)
Over 90 percent of the world’s states currently select their national leaders through multi-party elections. However, in Africa the quality of elections still varies widely, ranging from elections plagued by violence and ...
Keeping the Democratic Façade: Contemporary Autocratization as a Game of Deception
(2018)
Less than thirty years after Fukuyama and others declared liberal democracy’s eternal dominance, a third wave of autocratization is manifest. Gradual declines of democratic regime attributes characterize contemporary ...
Democracy for All?
(2018)