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Accountability and inequality in single-party regimes: a comparative analysis of Vietnam and China
R. Abrami;E. Malesky;Y. Zheng / The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2008
This article describes variation in authoritarian institutions by investigating the puzzle of divergent patterns of inequality in China and Vietnam, both high-growth single-party regimes. China‘...
Colonial land tenure, electoral competition and public goods in India
L. Iyer;A. Banerjee / The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2008
This study addresses the question: do areas under landlord-based systems develop differently compared to areas which were under other land tenure systems? The authors answer this question by comparing...
Just Rewards? local politics and public resource allocation in South India
T. Besley;R. Pande;V. Rao / The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2007
This paper examines how political influence is used in allocating public resources in a sample of south Indian villages. The authors focus on four facets of the political process:...
Informal institutions and comparative politics: a research agenda
G Helmke;S Levitsky / The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2004
The comparative politics literature, because of its exclusive focus on formal institutions, risks missing many of the “real” incentives and constraints that underlie political behaviour. T...

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