Reading list
Main text
- Persson, T. and G. Tabellini: Political Economics. Explaining Economic Policy, 2000. Cambridge, MA: MIT. Ch. 1-7 and 13.
Articles
- Acemoglu, D. (2008). Oligarchic versus Democratic Societies. Journal of the European Economic Association, 6(1), pp. 1–44.
- Acemoglu, D., G. Egorov , and K. Sonin (2008). Coalition Formation in Non-Democracies. Review of Economic Studies, 75(4), pp. 987–1009.
- Alesina, A., and G. Tabellini, 1990, A Positive Theory of Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt, The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 403-414.
- Besley T. and S. Coate, 1997, An Economic Model Of Representative Democracy”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 112, No. 1, pp. 85-114.
- Brollo, F., Nannicini, T., Perotti, R., and Tabellini, G. (2013) "The Political Resource Curse." American Economic Review, 103(5), pp. 1759-1796
- Brunner, Eric, Stephen L. Ross, and Ebonya Washington: Economics and Policy Preferences: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals. Review of Economics and Statistics 2011 93:3, pp. 888-906.
- DellaVigna, Stefano and Ethan Kaplan (2007): “The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting” Quarterly Journal of Economics (2007) 122 (3): 1187-1234
- Grossman, G. M. and E. Helpman : Protection for sale, 1994. American Economic Review 84(4). pp. 833-850.
- Hassler, J., Rodriguez Mora, J.V., Storesletten, K., and Zilibotti, F., 2003, The Survival of the Welfare State, American Economic Review, 93, 87-112.
- Lind, J. T. : Why is there so little redistribution?, 2005. Nordic Journal of Political Economy 31. pp. 111-125.
- Lind, J. T. (2015): “Rainy day politics. An instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes”, Mimeo, UiO
- Persson, T., and L. E. O., Svensson, 1989, Why a Stubborn Conservative would Run a Deficit: Policy with Time- Inconsistent Preferences, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 104, No. 2, pp. 325-345.
- Pettersson-Lidbom, P.: Do Parties Matter for Economic Outcomes? A Regression-Discontinuity Approach, 2008. Journal of the European Economic Association 6(5). pp. 1037-1056.
- Robinson, J. a., & Torvik, R. (2005). White elephants. Journal of Public Economics, 89(2-3), 197–210.
- Snyder, James M. and David Strömberg, 2010. "Press Coverage and Political Accountability," Journal of Political Economy, 118(2), pages 355-408,
- Song, Z., K. Storesletten, and F. Zilibotti (2012), Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt. Econometrica, 80: pp. 2785–2803.
- Wang, Y (2015), Will China Escape the Middle-Income Trap? A Politico-Economic Theory of State Capitalism and Growth. Mimeo, UiO.