Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
I History
1 The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: Toward a Political Economy of Implementation
2 The Institutional Origins of the Industrial Revolution
3 Institutions and the Resource Curse in Early Modern Spain
4 Slavery, Inequality, and Economic Development in the Americas: An Examination of the Engerman-Sokoloff Hypothesis
5 Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia
II Theory
6 The Constitutional Choice of Bicameralism
7 Economic Development, Insurgency, and Civil War
8 Party Discipline and Pork-Barrel Politics
9 Policy Persistence in Multiparty Parliamentary Democracies
III Contemporary Evidence
10 Formalizing Informal Institutions
11 Making Autocracy Work
12 Democracy, Technology, and Growth
13 The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index