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One Road to Riches?

How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development

By: Haakon Gjerløw,Carl Henrik Knutsen,Tore Wig,Matthew Charles Wilson

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One Road to Riches?

How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development

By: Haakon Gjerløw,Carl Henrik Knutsen,Tore Wig,Matthew Charles Wilson

Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponents of this “stateness-first” argument anticipate that democratization before state building yields poor development outcomes. In this Element, we discuss several strong assumptions that (different versions of) this argument rests upon and critically evaluate the existing evidence base. In extension, we specify various observable implications. We then subject the stateness-first argument to multiple tests, focusing on economic growth as an outcome. First, we conduct historical case studies of two countries with different institutional sequencing histories, Denmark and Greece, and assess the stateness-first argument (e.g., by using a synthetic control approach). Thereafter, we draw on an extensive global sample of about 180 countries, measured across 1789–2019 and leverage panel regressions, preparametric matching, and sequence analysis to test a number of observable implications. Overall, we find little evidence to support the stateness-first argument.

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Reforming to Survive

The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies

By: Magnus B. Rasmussen,Carl Henrik Knutsen

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Reforming to Survive

The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies

By: Magnus B. Rasmussen,Carl Henrik Knutsen

This Element details how elites provide policy concessions when they face credible threats of revolution. Specifically, the authors discuss how the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent formation of Comintern enhanced elites' perceptions of revolutionary threat by affecting the capacity and motivation of labor movements as well as the elites' interpretation of information signals. These developments incentivized elites to provide policy concessions to urban workers, notably reduced working hours and expanded social transfer programs. The authors assess their argument by using original qualitative and quantitative data. First, they document changes in perceptions of revolutionary threat and strategic policy concessions in early inter-war Norway by using archival and other sources. Second, they code, for example, representatives at the 1919 Comintern meeting to proxy for credibility of domestic revolutionary threat in cross-national analysis. States facing greater threats expanded various social policies to a larger extent than other countries, and some of these differences persisted for decades.

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One Road to Riches?

How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development

By: Haakon Gjerløw,Carl Henrik Knutsen,Tore Wig,Matthew Charles Wilson

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How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development

By: Haakon Gjerløw,Carl Henrik Knutsen,Tore Wig,Matthew Charles Wilson

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Reforming to Survive

The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies

By: Magnus B. Rasmussen,Carl Henrik Knutsen

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The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies

By: Magnus B. Rasmussen,Carl Henrik Knutsen

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