A COMMENT ON: State Capacity, Reciprocity, and the Social Contract

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Papaioannou, Elias
• 署名单位: University of London; London Business School; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
• 刊物名称: ECONOMETRICA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0012-9682
• DOI: 10.3982/ECTA18028
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 1351-1358
• 关键词: cultural transmission; economic-development; institutions

摘要

In this note, I discuss avenues for future research stemming from Besley's [this issue] theoretical approach on the interconnections between civicness, institutions, and state-fiscal capacity. First, I lay down some ideas on how one could extend the framework to model fragility traps that characterize many low-income countries and study issues related to nation-building, conflict, and heterogeneity across space and ethnic lines in the provision of public goods. Second, I discuss the relevance of the approach for the analysis of authoritarian populism that is spreading in developed countries and emerging markets.