Week 12
supplemental readings: Politics and economic outcomes
Barry Eichengreen, "Institutions and
Economic Growth:
Christopher Clague,
Philip Keefer, Stephen Knack, and Mancur Olson. "Institutions and Economic Performance:
Property Rights and Contract Enforcement" in Christopher Clague, ed. Institutions
and Economic Development: Growth and Governance in Less-Developed and
Post-Socialist Countries (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) pp. 67-90.
Christopher Clague,
Philip Keefer, Stephen Knack, and Mancur Olson. "Democracy, Autocracy, and the
Institutions Supportive of Economic Growth" in Christopher Clague, ed. Institutions
and Economic Development: Growth and Governance in Less-Developed and
Post-Socialist Countries.
P. Mauro,
“Corruption and growth.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 110 (1995), pp. 681–712.
David A. Leblang. "Property
Rights, Democracy and Economic Growth." Political Research Quarterly
49(1):5-26, March 1996.
Arthur A. Goldsmith. "Democracy, Property Rights
and Economic Growth." Journal
of Development Studies 32(2):157-174,
December 1995.
Kristin J. Forbes. 2000. “A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Inequality and Growth,” American Economic Review
90 (September): 869-887.
Roberto Perotti. 1996. “Growth, Income
Distribution, and Democracy: What the Data Say,” Journal of Economic Growth
1: 149-187. (E)
Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi.
1993. “Political Regimes and Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic
Perspectives
Peter Lindert, “Voice and Growth,” Journal
of Economic History, Vol. 63 (2), June 2003, 315-350.
Zehra F. Arat. "Democracy and Economic
Development: Modernization Theory Revisited." Comparative Politics
21(1):21-36, 1988
Robert W. Jackman. "On the
Relation of Economic Development to Democratic Performance."
American Journal of Political Science 17:611-621, 1973.
Amartya Sen. "Freedom Favors
Development." New Perspectives Quarterly 13(4), Fall 1998.
Donald Wittman. "Why Democracies Produce
Efficient Results." Journal of
Political Economy 97(6):1395-1424,
1989.
Adam Przeworski,
Mike Alvarez, José Antonio Cheibub and Fernando Limongi.
Democracy and Development: Political
Regimes and Economic Performance in the World, 1950-1990 (
Joel S. Hellman. "Winners Take
All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Postcommunist
Transitions." World Politics 50(2):203-234, January
1998.
Kaufman and Haggard, The Politics of economic adjustment
: international constraints, distributive conflicts, and the state (
R.J. Barro, “Economic growth in a cross
section of countries.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (1991), pp. 407–444.
R.J. Barro, “Democracy and growth.” Journal
of Economic Growth 1
(1996), pp. 1–24.
P. Collier and J.W. Gunning, “Explaining
African economic performance.” Journal of Economic Literature 37 (1999), pp. 64–111.
W. Easterly and R. Levine, “
I. Elbadawi and B.J. Ndulu,
“Long-term development and sustainable growth in Sub-Saharan Africa” In M. Lundahl and B.J. Ndulu, Editors, New
Directions in Development Economics (London: Routledge,
1996).
R. La Porta,
F. Lopez-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer
and R.W. Vishny, “The quality of government.” Journal of Law, Economics and
Organization 15
(1999), pp. 222–279.
J. Sachs
and A. Warner, “Sources of slow growth in African economies.” Journal of
African Economies 6
(1997), pp. 335–376.
Lagerlof, NP. “From Malthus
to modern growth: Can epidemics explain the three regimes?” International
Economic Review, 44 (2): 755-777 MAY 2003
Wacziarg, R. “The elusive quest for growth:
Economists' adventures and misadventues in the
tropics.” Journal of Economic Literature, 40 (3): 907-918 SEP 2002