JEL code: P16

Capitalist Systems: Political Economy

How Buoyant Is the South African Tax System? An ARDL Approach
This study aims to scrutinize the responsiveness of the South Afric...
Published: 22 September 2020
Working Paper
Monetary policy and inequality
South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world and ...
Published: 30 July 2020
Policy Brief
The political economy of palm oil expansion and deforestation in Indonesia
This paper studies the interactions between political and economic ...
Published: 20 July 2020
Working Paper
Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy
Some of the most contested questions in political science and polit...
Published: 3 July 2020
Working Paper
The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in...
This paper examines the impact of political competition on economic...
Published: 17 June 2015
Policy Brief
A Dream Deferred: the Microfoundations of Direct Political Action in Pre- and Post-demo...
Persistent protests might endanger the stability of young democraci...
Published: 28 November 2014
Working Paper
The social and political case for promoting economic growth and broad-based innovation ...
Popular protest in South Africa has increased sharply in recent yea...
Published: 24 November 2014
Policy Brief
Addressing structural change issues in the context of South Africa's political dispensa...
The current structure of South Africa’s economy is partly a product...
Published: 21 November 2014
Policy Brief
Political transition in a small open economy: Retracing the economic trail of South Afr...
This paper seeks to offer an economic explanation for the emergence...
Published: 8 September 2014
Working Paper
Is Democracy Eluding Sub-Saharan Africa?
This paper analyses the modernisation hypothesis in the sub-Saharan...
Published: 23 June 2014
Working Paper
Does Education Promote Stable Property Rights?
This paper sets out to establish an empirical link between educatio...
Published: 21 October 2013
Working Paper
Yet Another Look at the Modernisation Hypothesis: Evidence from South America
We investigate in this paper whether the exogenous version of the m...
Published: 4 April 2013
Working Paper
Don’t Make War, Make Elections. Franchise Extension and Violence in XIXth-Century Colombia
This paper studies the effect of strengthening democracy, as captur...
Published: 12 March 2013
Working Paper
The politics of state, society and economy
Policy Paper (Interest) 06 The article takes issue with the way in ...
Published: 27 September 2001
Policy Paper

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