Constitutions, Politics, and Economics: A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini's The Economic Effects of Constitutions

• Autores: Daron Acemoglu
• Localización: Journal of economic literature, ISSN 0022-0515, Vol. 43, Nº 4, 2005, págs. 1025-1048
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this essay, I review the new book by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini, The Economic Effects of Constitutions, which investigates the policy and economic consequences of different forms of government and electoral rules. I also take advantage of this opportunity to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a number of popular empirical strategies in the newly emerging field of comparative political economy.