| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP9284 |
| DP9284 Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence | |
| Bernardo Guimaraes; Filipe Campante; Quoc-Anh Do | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-01-13 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by distance from the seat of political power. In established democracies, the threat of insurgencies is not a binding constraint, and the model predicts no correlation between isolated capitals and misgovernance. In contrast, a correlation emerges in equilibrium in the case of autocracies. Causality runs both ways: broader power sharing (associated with better governance) means that any rents have to be shared more broadly, hence the elite has less of an incentive to protect its position by isolating the capital city; conversely, a more isolated capital city allows the elite to appropriate a larger share of output, so the costs of better governance for the elite, in terms of rents that would have to be shared, are larger. We show evidence that this pattern holds true robustly in the data. We also show that isolated capitals are associated with less power sharing, a larger income premium enjoyed by capital city inhabitants, and lower levels of military spending by ruling elites, as predicted by the theory. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; International Macroeconomics |
| 关键词 | Capital cities Democracy Governance Institutions Insurgencies Population concentration Power sharing |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9284 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538120 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bernardo Guimaraes,Filipe Campante,Quoc-Anh Do. DP9284 Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence. 2013. |
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