From urban political economy to cultural political economy: rethinking culture and economy in and beyond the urban

the article we will show how a perspective that takes into account the particular historical trajectories, the role of non-local actors, and the international political economy

39 As expected, local incumbents in municipalities affected by a nationally imposed fiscal adjustment are not held responsible at the local elections, and their

Our main hypothesis is that the mix of government vote buying and local autonomy shaped the allocation of road resources among provinces. On the one hand, governments

It takes as a point of departure the main mod- els of the political-economy literature on education (Saint-Paul and Verdier 1993; Perotti 1993; Fernandez and Rogerson 1995).

Likewise, Gomes (2011) studies optimal fiscal policy in a model where the government can set public wages, and finds that these should rise in booms and fall in recessions...

If it is true that single institutions such as one-party systems or legislatures serve, as argued, to channel elite demands, to coopt the potential opposition, to distribute perks

By using this filter, we considered the multiple parameters involved and avoid the simplification we will submit the sample to, if we had exclusively applied some of the

The Creole bourgeoisie, who were represented by the Local Council (Consejo de Vecinos) in Santa Isabel, were anxious for labourers but found the small Bubi owners to be good