Pathologies of Federalism, Russian Style: Political Institutions and Economic Transition
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California, Berkeley; and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Stanford University. The authors thank Maite Careaga, Scott Gehlbach, John Litwack, Douglass North, Yingyi Qian, and Daniel Treisman for helpful comments. Pathologies of Federalism, Russian Style: Political Institutions and Economic Transition Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr. and Barry R. Weingast
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