Political Competition, Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the US

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Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone (2014, background): “An important paper by Besley, Persson, and Sturm ð2010Þ exploits the abolition of poll taxes and literacy tests in US states as a potential source of exogenous variation in political competition.”
Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia (2019, background): “We conjecture that this might be one of the channels via which the Mafia impacts local economic development (see Besley et al. (2010) for empirical evidence from the United States consistent with such an effect of political”
Do land revenue windfalls create a political resource curse? Evidence from China ☆ (2016, background): “…that reelection incentives for politicians under democracy have frequently led to signaling efforts in the respects of war making (Hess and Orphanides, 1995), public goods provision (Caselli and Michaels, 2013; De Janvry et al., 2012) and more generally economic performance (Besley et al., 2010).”
Elections, Political Competition and Bank Failure (2014, neutral): “Private costs associated with delay are those incurred in the event such corrupt behavior is 24 In an earlier version of this paper, we used the party neutral measure of political competition developed in Besley, Persson, and Sturm (2010).”