The Economic Role of Political Institutions

By Barry R. Weingast. 2000

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Accountability and Corruption: Political Institutions Matter (2001, background): “The problem of corruption in the public sphere is almost a direct consequence of the nature of government interventions.”
The Rule of Law and Economic Growth: Where are We? (2011, background): “13 Woodruff (2009), however, makes an important distinction between de jure and de facto institutions that calls into question the utility of at least some nominally “objective” measures.”
Where Is Credit Due? Legal Institutions, Connections, and the Efficiency of Bank Lending in Vietnam (2009, unknown): “See Weingast (1992, 1993, 1998).”
Self-Enforcing Federalism (2005, background): “25Rakove, Rutten, and Weingast (2000) make this point; see also Rakove (1996) and Wood (1969). market — suffered because of state free-riding in the face of the common pool problem: many shirked, thus under-providing national central goods (2(n,z)).”
Regional decentralization and fiscal incentives: Federalism, Chinese style (2005, background): “Measurement of provincial and central government expenditures is standard.”
The Rule of Law and Economic Development (2008, methodology): “Yet among the most influential statements in this vein are a succession of papers by Weingast, which we use as a touchstone for our discussion (North & Weingast 1989; Weingast 1995, 1997; Schultz & Weingast 2003).”
Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market–Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth (2011, background): “That is, markets and property rights are not enough for economic growth; the rule of law is also required (Weingast, 1995, 1997).”
The New Institutionalism (2010, background): “Viewed either way, institutions are seen as patterns of conduct from which people are reluctant to deviate (Shepsle 1979; Schotter 1981; Weingast 1995; Medina 2007).”
Two-Tiered Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (2009, unknown): “See Weingast (1995) for a discussion of how the ability to resolve this paradox is a crucial determinant in economic development. balances, are supposed to overcome this dilemma.”
Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Disparities: Evidence from Several European Union Countries (2008, methodology): “In the framework of the `secondgeneration' models of fiscal federalism, for example, Weingast (1995) and Qian and Weingast (1997) stress the role played in this context by the incentive effects of regional competition following fiscal devolution.”