Albanian Political-Economics: Albanian Political-Economics: Consequences of a Clan Culture

Klarita Gërxhani () and Arthur Schram
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Arthur Schram: University of Amsterdam, CREED, Faculty of Economics & Econometrics

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Abstract: We study the politico-economic interaction in a country in transition from a communist regime to a democratic, free market system, to wit, Albania. It is argued that the politico-economic system there is characterized by the existence of clans. Both the communists and the first democratically chosen government applied policies that favored specific clans. Moreover, a popularity function estimation shows that voters related to different clans react in a distinct way to party policies.

Keywords: Clans; Albania; popularity functions; government policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 D78 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pol and nep-tra
Date: 2004-04-20
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