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Political Institutions and Growth Collapses

Alejandro Gavira (agaviria@dnp.gov.co), Ugo Panizza, Jessica Seddon (jseddon@leland.standford.edu) and Ernesto Stein
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Alejandro Gavira: National Department of Planning, Colombia
Jessica Seddon: Political Economist program

Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Economico, 2004, issue 2, 11-32

Abstract: This paper tests whether Rodrik's (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining the quality of such institutions. In this paper, we measure the quality of conflict management institutions with two different indices. The first is an index of political constraints on the ability of the executive to impose its will. These constraints limit the ability of the government to arbitrarily change the rules of the game and therefore may reduce redistributive struggles. The second index measures the degree of political particularism. We define political particularism as the policymakers’ ability to further their career by catering to narrow interests rather than broader national platforms, The indices used in this paper solve the endogeneity and subjectivity biases that affect Rodrik's main measure of institutional quality We find strong support for the idea that high levels of political constraints and intermediate levels of political particularism are associated with a quick recovery from economic shocks.

Keywords: Growght; Collapses; Political (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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