Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments

We study dynamic selection of governments under different political institutions, with a special focus on institutional flexibility . A government consists of a subset of the individuals in the society. The competence level of the government in office determines collective utilities (e.g., by determ...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron (Contributor), Egorov, Georgy (Author), Sonin, Konstantin (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Harvard University, 2011-03-18T20:53:47Z.
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