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How can governments enhance economic growth while avoiding social and political instability? Economists and political scientists tackle this question, using theory and empirical data to provide a framework for measuring states' political capacity and offer suggestions for increasing it.
List of contents
Introduction -- Part I The Concept of Political Capacity -- Relative Political Capacity: Political Extraction and Political Reach -- Theoretical Link of Political Capacity to Development -- Part II Economic Applications -- Political Capacity and Economic Determinants of Inflation -- Political Capacity and the Use of Seigniorage -- Political Capacity and Private Investment -- Political Capacity and Economic Growth -- Political Capacity, Macroeconomic Factors, and Capital Flows -- Political Capacity and Black Market Premiums -- Part III Political Applications -- Political Capacity and Government Resource Transfers -- Political Capacity and Demographic Change -- Political Capacity and Violence -- Political Capacity, Growth, and Distributive Commitments -- Part IV Extending Political Capacity -- Political Capacity and the Economic Frontier -- New Estimates of Political Capacity -- Alternative Approaches to Estimating Political Capacity -- The Unfinished Agenda
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Marina Arbetman
Summary
How can governments enhance economic growth while avoiding social and political instability? Economists and political scientists tackle this question, using theory and empirical data to provide a framework for measuring states' political capacity and offer suggestions for increasing it.
