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

Daron Acemoglu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Journal of Economic Literature 2005

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.

DOI
10.1257/002205105775362069
Volume
43 (4)
Pages
1025-1048
Language
en
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