Authoritarian power sharing: Concepts, mechanisms, and strategies

A Meng, J Paine, R Powell - Annual Review of Political Science, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
We provide a unified language for studying power sharing in authoritarian regimes. Power-
sharing deals entail not only sharing spoils between a ruler and challenger, but also …

What have we learned about the resource curse?

ML Ross - Annual review of political science, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,”
meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's …

The participation dividend of taxation: How citizens in Congo engage more with the state when it tries to tax them

JL Weigel - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
This article provides evidence from a fragile state that citizens demand more of a voice in the
government when it tries to tax them. I examine a field experiment randomizing property tax …

[كتاب][B] Private wealth and public revenue

T Fairfield - 2015‏ - books.google.com
Inequality and taxation are fundamental problems of modern times. How and when can
democracies tax economic elites? This book develops a theoretical framework that refines …

[كتاب][B] Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy

D Acemoglu, JA Robinson - 2005‏ - books.google.com
This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy.
Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate …

The new politics of the welfare state

P Pierson - World politics, 1996‏ - cambridge.org
This essay seeks to lay the foundation for an understanding of welfare state retrenchment.
Previous discussions have generally relied, at least implicitly, on a reflexive application of …

Preferences and power in the European Community: A liberal intergovernmentalist approach

A Moravcsik - JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 1993‏ - Wiley Online Library
Metodi Sotirov, Maike Stelter and Georg Winkel, The emergence of the European Union
Timber Regulation: How Baptists, Bootleggers, devil shifting and moral legitimacy drive …

Does oil hinder democracy?

ML Ross - World politics, 2001‏ - cambridge.org
Some scholars suggest that the Middle East's oil wealth helps explain its failure to
democratize. This article examines three aspects of this “oil impedes democracy” claim. First …

[كتاب][B] The political economy of democratic decentralization.

J Manor - 1999‏ - cabidigitallibrary.org
This report examines the origins and implications of decentralization from a political
economy perspective, with a focus on its promise and limitations in develo** countries. It …

[كتاب][B] Paradigms and sand castles: Theory building and research design in comparative politics

B Geddes - 2003‏ - books.google.com
Paradigms and Sand Castles demonstrates the relationship between thoughtful research
design and the collection of persuasive evidence in support of theory. It teaches the craft of …