Tag Archives: Political Economy
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Pamela Ban, Ju Yeon Park, Hye Young You
Members of Congress play a critical role in shaping policy on a vast array of complex issues — from climate change to healthcare, national security to agriculture. Yet, they are not experts in these fields. Instead, they rely on external sources of information to guide their legislative decisions. But who provides this information, and how […]
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Belén Fernández Milmanda
How do landowners protect their interests in contemporary democracies? Classic social science studies have argued that landowners’ economic interests are incompatible with democracy, as democratization should lead to the increasing taxation or even expropriation of their assets in response to redistributive demands from the poor. However, agrarian elites and democracy have coexisted in Latin America […]
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Miles M. Evers, Eric Grynaviski
Beginning in the 1850s, the United States took its first, incautious steps toward developing an overseas empire in the Pacific. In the end, the empire would help defeat Japan during World War II. The bloodiest and most infamous battles of the Pacific War were fought on possessions gained by American imperialists. The first American shots […]
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Robert Kubinec
Despite the costly efforts of Arab activists and citizens over the past decade of the Arab Uprisings, today no Arab state can claim to be fully democratic. Two countries, Egypt and Tunisia, traveled farthest down the path towards democracy, and Tunisia witnessed ten years of democratic elections–but today neither country protects the rights of citizens […]
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Torben Iversen, Philipp Rehm
A central function of the state is to provide insurance against the vagaries of life and markets, such as accidents, ill health, old age, or unemployment. Collectively, these mandatory risk pooling arrangements are known as social insurance, or the welfare state. According to influential accounts in the literature, the welfare state exists because (social) insurance […]
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Robert H. Bates
When faced with phenomena that we find difficult to understand, we often turn to the past. Our understanding of the latter enables us to frame and dissect the events unfolding before us. I am a political scientist and I study development. But in contrast to many, when doing so, I turn to the past. For […]
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Janina Grabs
For many academics, the workday begins with a cup of coffee. Next time you fill up the machine – possibly still bleary-eyed – take a closer look at the coffee package: can you see a sustainability label such as Rainforest Alliance’s frog or Fairtrade’s little figurine? Have you ever wondered what stands behind those sustainability […]
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Madhusudan Datta
The Indian economy traversed a rising growth trajectory for three decades since the turn of the 1970s. It has been observed that growth came mostly from the service sector. The question that haunted economists is: can the service sector of an underdeveloped country maintain such momentum when manufacturing fails to get charged up in spite […]
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Pamela Ban, Ju Yeon Park, Hye Young You
Members of Congress play a critical role in shaping policy on a vast array of complex issues — from climate change to healthcare, national security to agriculture. Yet, they are not experts in these fields. Instead, they rely on external sources of information to guide their legislative decisions. But who provides this information, and how […]
Read More
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Belén Fernández Milmanda
How do landowners protect their interests in contemporary democracies? Classic social science studies have argued that landowners’ economic interests are incompatible with democracy, as democratization should lead to the increasing taxation or even expropriation of their assets in response to redistributive demands from the poor. However, agrarian elites and democracy have coexisted in Latin America […]
Read More
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Miles M. Evers, Eric Grynaviski
Beginning in the 1850s, the United States took its first, incautious steps toward developing an overseas empire in the Pacific. In the end, the empire would help defeat Japan during World War II. The bloodiest and most infamous battles of the Pacific War were fought on possessions gained by American imperialists. The first American shots […]
Read More
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Robert Kubinec
Despite the costly efforts of Arab activists and citizens over the past decade of the Arab Uprisings, today no Arab state can claim to be fully democratic. Two countries, Egypt and Tunisia, traveled farthest down the path towards democracy, and Tunisia witnessed ten years of democratic elections–but today neither country protects the rights of citizens […]
Read More
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Torben Iversen, Philipp Rehm
A central function of the state is to provide insurance against the vagaries of life and markets, such as accidents, ill health, old age, or unemployment. Collectively, these mandatory risk pooling arrangements are known as social insurance, or the welfare state. According to influential accounts in the literature, the welfare state exists because (social) insurance […]
Read More
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Robert H. Bates
When faced with phenomena that we find difficult to understand, we often turn to the past. Our understanding of the latter enables us to frame and dissect the events unfolding before us. I am a political scientist and I study development. But in contrast to many, when doing so, I turn to the past. For […]
Read More
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Janina Grabs
For many academics, the workday begins with a cup of coffee. Next time you fill up the machine – possibly still bleary-eyed – take a closer look at the coffee package: can you see a sustainability label such as Rainforest Alliance’s frog or Fairtrade’s little figurine? Have you ever wondered what stands behind those sustainability […]
Read More
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Madhusudan Datta
The Indian economy traversed a rising growth trajectory for three decades since the turn of the 1970s. It has been observed that growth came mostly from the service sector. The question that haunted economists is: can the service sector of an underdeveloped country maintain such momentum when manufacturing fails to get charged up in spite […]
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