Confrontation of economic politics

The Politics of Economic Growth

A New Politics of Confrontation? Developing Countries at Cancun and Beyond

Clientelistic Politics and Economic Development: An Overview

This paper provides an overview of the literature on political clientelism in the context of developing countries. Theoretical models of clientelism are reviewed, following by empirical evidence regarding causes and consequences of clientelism. We conclude with possible implications for the dynamics of clientelism and its interaction with the development process, a summary of what has been lear...

Congressional distributive politics and state economic performance

States that were represented by very senior Democratic congressmen grew more quickly during the 1953–1990 period than states that were represented by more junior congressional delegations. States with a large fraction of politically competitive House districts also grew faster than average. The first finding is consistent with traditional legislator-based models of distributive politics, the se...

Economic integration in China: Politics and culture

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten, Libman, Alexander, and Yu, Xiaofan—Economic integration in China: Politics and culture The aim of the paper is to explicitly disentangle the role of political and cultural boundaries as factors of fragmentation of economies within large countries. On the one hand, local protectionism plays a substantial role in many federations and decentralized states. On the other h...