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Description:: My dissertation identifies the causes of inequality traps - i.e., high and persistent levels of economic inequality - in Latin America and explains how and why some countries manage to escape such traps and embark on paths of diminishing inequality. I argue that the Redistributive State Power shapes the main...
Keyword:: Redistributive Politics, State, Inequality, Political Economy, and Economic Elites
Subject:: Political science
Creator:: Garcia-Montoya, Laura
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Description:: This dissertation presents research on the game theory of political power, both between and within nations. It first revisits a classical distinction between three different types of power or influence: information, rewards and threats. By presenting a binary-action Principal-Agent problem which incorporates the essential ingredients of all three types of...
Keyword:: Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Political Economy
Subject:: Economics, Political science, and Economic theory
Creator:: Theisen, Alexander Scott
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Description:: Economic and political processes are heavily intertwined. Political processes put constraints on economic activity while economic development influences the way the political system operates. This interconnection is especially tight in developing countries and transition economies with less secure property rights, less stable political institutions, and more rapid economic changes. In...
Keyword:: Conflict, Political Parties, Social Media, Political Economy, and Development Economics
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Makarin, Alexey
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14652 and etdadmin_upload_662665

Description:: In the first chapter, I study how political institutions can affect policymaking when the economy is in transition. I develop a framework where a transition process gradually restructures economic institutions so that the population's long-term preference may differ from its short-term preference. A democracy may fail to implement the optimal...
Keyword:: Institution, Regulation, transition, Political Economy, and Medicaid
Subject:: Managerial Economics and Strategy
Creator:: Tapas Kundu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/01/2018
Date Modified:: 06/01/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-10
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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