We inventory more than 150 studies of distributive politics in more than three dozen
countries other than the United States. We organize existing studies under two theories …

In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy
and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms …

Papers in the burgeoning empirical literature on distributive politics often focus their analysis
on the pattern of distribution of a single patronage good—for example, cash transfers, roads …

Fully revised and updated to reflect the considerable changes in Russia over the last
decade, the fifth edition of this classic text builds on the strengths of previous editions to …

What role do courts play in the establishment and maintenance of constitutional
democracies? To address this question, we elaborate a model that draws on existing …

Based on a unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing
between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to …

The speed of economic reforms is not the only important determinant of the success of the
transition to a market economy: the transition of government from a communist state to an …

This book explains how state institutions affect ethnic mobilization. It focuses on how ethno-
nationalist movements emerge on the political arena, develop organizational structures …

This article analyzes the political determinants of the distribution of infrastructure
expenditures by the Italian government to the country's 92 provinces between 1953 and …

Since 1990 Russia has experienced an unexpected “ethnic revival.” Varying widely in
geography, culture, economic development, and institutional history, the country's thirty-two …