Political Competition, Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the United States

By T. Besley, Torsten Persson, Daniel M Sturm. 2010

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Citations in the corpus

• Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence (2011, unknown): “7 Focusing on cross-country studies, we do not cover studies dealing with US states such as the recent study by Besley et al. (2011).”
• Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia (2019, unknown): “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 28 competition).”
• Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds following the Voting Rights Act of 1965* (2014, background): “Besley, Persson, and Sturm (2010) argue that the removal of voting barriers increased state political competition and therefore state economic growth.”