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Capital cities, conflict, and misgovernancetheory and evidence

Campante, Filipe Robin; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimarães, Bernardo de Vasconcellos

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Resumo

We investigate the links between capital cities, conflict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption that incumbent elites are constrained by the threat of insurrection, and that this threat is rendered less effective by distance from the seat of political power. We develop a model that delivers two key predictions: (i) conflict is more likely to emerge (and to dislodge incumbents) closer to the capital, and (ii) isolated capital cities are associated with misgovernance. We show evidence that both patterns hold true robustly in the data, as do other ancillary predictions from the model.

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Tipo
Estudo
Ano
2014
Instituição
EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo
Idioma
Inglês
Acesso
Não informado
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/17396

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