In recent years, there has been increasing interest in whether and how bureaucratic
effectiveness contributes to development. Just what makes for an effective bureaucracy and …

Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age,
Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt …

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The article examines the effect of meritocratic recruitment and tenure protection in public
bureaucracies on regulatory quality and business entry rates in a global sample. Utilizing a …

How does the degree of centralization and decentralization of political control affect
economic performance? To investigate this question, we gather and analyze a …

We use data from a large survey of Chinese firms to investigate whether local government
efforts to facilitate market development improve firm efficiency. Both government provision of …

Should state regulatory involvement in the economy necessarily generate corruption? While
excessive regulatory burden is often treated as a cause of corruption, this paper argues …

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40 percent surge in deaths
between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among …

We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely
unanticipated political change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange …

Political economy scholarship suggests that private sector investment, and thus economic
growth, is more likely to occur when formal institutions allow states to provide investors with …