POLITICAL ECONOMY READING GROUP

READING LIST


                     


                     December 11, 2008 How do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890 to 2005 by Patricia Funk and Christina Gathmann
                    
                     December 4, 2008: Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India by Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani

                     November 20, 2008: Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy by William Easterly, Shanker Satyanath, and Daniel Berger

                     November 6, 2008: Conquered or Granted? A History of Suffage Extensions by Adam Przeworski        
      
                     October 30, 2008: Does Democracy Reduce Economic Inequality? If so, how? by Jeff Timmons

                     October 23, 2008: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of Mistrust in Africa: An Empirical Investigation by Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon
                    
                     October 16, 2008: Regulation and Distrust by Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, and Andrei Shleifer
                        
                     October 9, 2008: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History by Douglas North, John Wallis and Barry Weingast

                     July 29, 2008: The Great Divide Revisited: Ottoman and Habsburg Legacies on Transition by Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl

                     July 15, 2008: Who Keeps International Commitments and Why? by Judith Kelley                

                     June 24, 2008: Solidary Groups, Informal Accountability, and Local Public Goods Provision in Rural China by Lily Tsai

                     May 29, 2008: Fortune or Evil? The Effects of Inward Foreign Direct Investment on Corruption by Pablo M. Pinto and Boliang Zhu.

                     May 20, 2008: Cultures and Soccer Violence by Miguel, Saiegh and Satyanath

                     May 13, 2008: Political Institutions, Labor Coercion, and the Emergence of Public Schooling: Evidence from the 19th Century Coffee Boom by Gustavo J. Bobonis

                     May 6, 2008: Economic Interests and the Origins of Electoral Systems by Cusack, Iversen and Soskice (2007).

                     April 22, 2008: Political Rights, Property Rights, and Economic Development by Adam Przeworski.

                     April 15, 2008: The Neuroeconomics of Trust by Zak.

                     March 25, 2008:
Betting on Hitler: The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany by Ferguson and Yoth (2008).

                     March 18, 2008:
The Role of Leaders in Democratic Deliberations: Results from a Field Experiment in Sao Tome and Principe by Humphreys, Masters and Sandbu (2006).