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POLECON 683 Political Development Economics
Professor Saumitra Jha
- Article Databases (to find articles on your research topics)
- Readings
- Why development is hard: constituencies and losers
- Financial solutions to political economy problems
- Understanding ethnic and social identity
- Ethnic and civil conflict
- The aftermath of conflict
- Corruption and "forensic" economics
- Complementarities and institutions
- The importance of leaders in development
- Democratisation and threats to democracy
- Deliberative processes
- Political open economy macroeconomic
- Political economy of trade
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Discussion focus 1.
Rajan, Raghuram G. 2009. "Rent Preservation and the Persistence of Underdevelopment." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 1(1): 178–218. View Article 2. Rajan, Raghuram and Rodney Ramcharan, 2011. "Land and Credit: A 3. Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, (2008 March). "Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions," American Economic Review, 98(1), 267-93. View article 1. Stephen Haber and Enrico Perotti (2008) "The Political Economy of Finance." View Article 2. Saumitra Jha (2011) "Sharing the Future: Financial Innovation and Innovators in 3. Saumitra Jha (2010) "Financial Innovations and Political Development: Evidence 4. Bruno Biais and Enrico Perotti (2002) "Machiavellian Privatization" American 5. Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (1991) “Specific factors, capital markets, portfolio diversification and free trade: domestic determinants of the repeal of the Corn Laws" World Politics, 43(4), 545-549. View article 6. Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny (1994) "Voucher privatization" Discussion focus 1. Debraj Ray (2006) “Aspirations, poverty and economic change" chapter 28 in Banerjee, Benabou and Mookherjee eds. Understanding poverty, OUP. View article (2006 ed.); View article (2002 ed.) 2. Roland Fryer and David Austen-Smith (2005 May)”An Economic Analysis of 'Acting White"' The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(2), 551-583. View article Background 1. Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Saumitra Jha (2011) "Global Trade, Contract Failure 2. Ben Eifert, Edward Miguel and Dan Posner (2010) "Political Competition and 3. Saumitra Jha (2004) "Cultured economic theory", mimeo, Stanford University. View article 4. Posner, Daniel (2004) “The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi" American Political Science Review, 98(4), 529-545. View article 5. Lily Tsai (2007) "Solidary Groups, Informal Accountability, and Local Public Goods Provision in Rural China", American Political Science Review, 101(2), 355-372. View article Historical Cases: Indigenous Communities in Mexico (15C-21C) Islamisation in sub-Saharan Africa (20C), Indonesia (Financial crisis) Discussion focus 1. Joachim Voth and Nico Voigtlander (2011) "Persecution Perpetuated: The Me- 2. Saumitra Jha (2010) "Complementarities and religious tolerance: evidence from 3. Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray (2009) "Linking conflict to inequality and polariza- 4. Oeindrila Dube and Juan Vargas (2008), “Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia", mimeo, Harvard. View article
1. Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray (1994), "On the Measurement of Polarization," Econometrica 62(4), 819-851. View article 2. Robert Powell (2006) "War as a commitment problem" International Organization, 60(1), 169-203. View article Discussion focus 1. Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson (2011) "Veterans, Organizational Skill and Ethnic Cleansing: Evidence from the Partition of South Asia", View article 2. Christopher Blattman (2010) "From violence to voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda" American Political Science
Review,
103(2), 231-247. View article 3. Murat Iyigun and Erin Fletcher (2010) "The Clash of Civilizations: A Cliometric 4. Abadie, Alberto, and Javier Gardeazabal (2003) "The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case-Control Study for the Basque Country." American Economic Review, 93(1), 113-132. View article
1. John Bellows and Edward Miguel (2008) “War and collective action in Sierra Leone" mimeo, UC Berkeley. View article 3. Joshua Angrist (1990) “Lifetime earnings and the Vietnam era draft lottery: evidence from Social Security administrative records" American Economic Review, 80(3), 313-336. View article Historical Cases: India (1947), Japan (20C), Spain (20C), Uganda (1990s-2000s) Discussion focus 1. Melissa Dell (2011) "Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War" MIT job 2. Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan and Suresh Naidu (2008) “Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information", mimeo, November version.* View article 3. Finan, Federico and Claudio Ferraz (2008) “Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes", Quarterly Journal of Economics. 123 (2), 703-745.* View article 4. Paulina Oliva (2008) "Environmental Regulation and Corruption: Automobile Emis- 5. Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel (2008) “Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets", Journal of Political Economy. 115(6), 1020-1048. ** View article OR 6. Raymond Fisman and Shang-Jin Wei (2007), “The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques", mimeo, Columbia Business School. * View article Background 1. Shleifer, Andrei and Robert Vishny (1993) “Corruption” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108(3), 599-617, August. View article 2. Vito Tanzi (1997) “Corruption: Arm's Length Relationships and Markets" chapter 7 in The Economics of Organized Crime, Gianluca Fiorentini and Sam Peltzman eds., Cambridge University Press. View article 3. Raymond Fisman (2001) "Estimating the value of political connections", The American Economic Review, 91(4), 1095-1102. View article Discussion focus 1. Avner Greif and David Laitin (2004) "A theory of endogenous institutional change", 2. Paul Milgrom, Yingyi Qian and John Roberts (1991 May) "Complementarities, Momentum and the Evolution of Modern Manufacturing''
The American Economic Review, 81(2), 84-88.* View article 3. Paul Milgrom and John Roberts (1990) "
The Economics of Modern Manufacturing: Technology, Strategy, and Organization" American Economic Review,
80(3), 511-528. View article 1. Susan Athey, Paul Milgrom and John Roberts (1998) Robust Comparative Statics, mimeo, Stanford. View article Historical Cases: Russia, Poland, Czech Republic (20C) Discussion focus 1. Daron Acemoglu and Matt Jackson (2011) "History, Expectations and Leadership 2. Ben Olken and Benjamin Jones (2005 August) “Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth since World War II.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(3), 835-864.* View article 3. Ben Olken and Benjamin Jones (2007) “Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutional Change and War.” NBER Working Paper 13102.* View article 4. Gerard Padro (2007) "The Control of Politicians in Divided Societies: The Politics 6. Edward L. Glaeser, (2005) "The Political Economy of Hatred," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(1), 45-86. View article 7. Timur Kuran (1989) "Sparks and prairie fires: a theory of unanticipated political revolution", Public Choice, 61, 41-74. View article Discussion focus 1. Toke Aidt and R. Franck (2008) “How to get the snowball rolling and extend the franchise: Voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832" Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0832. View article 2. Alessandro Lizzeri and Nicola Persico (2004 May) “Why Did the Elites Extend the Suffrage? Democracy and the Scope of Government, with an Application to Britain's Age of Reform” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119(2), 707-765. View article Background 1. Adam Przeworski (2007) "Conquered or Granted? A History of Suffrage Extensions" mimeo, NYU. View article 2. Dani Rodrik and Romain Wacziarg, (2005 May) “Do democratic transitions produce bad economics outcomes?" American Economic Review, 95(2), 50-55. View article 3. Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (2000 November). "Why Did The West Extend The Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, And Growth In Historical Perspective," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(4), 1167-1199. View article 4. Carles Boix (2003) Democracy and Redistribution, Cambridge University Press (Available at GSB Library i-Desk) Historical Cases: England (19C) Discussion Focus 1. Ben Olken (2010) "Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a 2. Adam Meirowitz and Dimitri Landa (2009) "Game Theory, Information and De- Background 1. Radu Ban, Saumitra Jha and Vijayendra Rao (2012) "Who has Voice in A Delib- 2. Adam Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg (2010) "An Experimental Approach to Cit- 3. Catherine Hafer and Dimitri Landa (2007) "Deliberation as Self-Discovery and 5. Keith Krehbiel (2004) "Legislative Organization" Journal of Economic Perspec- 6. Vincent Crawford and Joel Sobel (1982) "Strategic Information Transmission" 1. Man-Keung Tan and Shang-Jin Wei (2009) "The Value of Making Commitments 2. Jeffrey Frankel and Shang-JinWei (2007) "Assessing China's exchange rate regime" 1. Helen Milner and Bumba Mukherjee (2011) "Democracy and Trade Policy in Devel- 2. Rikhil Bhavnani and Saumitra Jha (2011) "Trade Shocks, Mass Movements and 3. Petia Topalova (2010) "Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberal- 4. J. Ernesto Lopez-Cordova and Christopher Meissner (2008) "The Impact of In- Background 1. Helen Milner and Bumba Mukherjee (2009) "Democratization and Economic Glob- 2. Ron Rogowski (1989) Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments , Princeton University Press. (Available at GSB Library i-Desk) Historical Cases Latin America (20C), South Asia (20C) |

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