Institutions and Economic Performance

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