Political Economy and Economic Development

Lecture Notes

SES #	TOPICS	LECTURE NOTES	RECITATION NOTES
1	Introduction: Why study political economy and development? Motivation and course overview	Political Economy and Economic Development: Introduction (PDF)	Recitation 0: Introduction to Stata (PDF)
2	The Role of Leaders and Democratic Institutions	Leaders and Democratic Institutions (PDF)	Recitation 1: Linear Regression Models and the Wald Estimator (PDF)
3	The Deep Determinants of Economic Development: Macro Evidence	The Deep Determinants of Economic Development: Macro Evidence (PDF)	No recitation
4	The Deep Determinants of Economic Development: Micro Evidence	The Deep Determinants of Economic Development: Micro Evidence (PDF)	No recitation
5	None Available	No notes	No Recitation
6	The Median Voter Theorem	The Median Voter Theorem (PDF)	Recitation 2: Fixed Effects and Regression Discontinuity (PDF)
7	The Median Voter Theorem (cont.)	No notes	No recitation
8	Voting in Practice: Citizen-Candidate Models, Politician Identity and the Failure of the Median Voter Theorem	Voting In Practice (PDF)	No recitation
9	Voting in Practice: Agency Models	Selection, Moral Hazard, and Voting (PDF)	Recitation 3: Moral Hazard (PDF)
10	Voting in Practice: Agency Models (cont.)	No notes	No recitation
11	Voting in Practice: Vote buying and voter intimidation	No notes	Recitation 4: Deep Determinants of Economic Development and Pande (2003) (PDF)
12	Sometimes It Gets Complicated: Condorcet’s Paradox and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem	Sometimes It Gets Complicated: Condorcet’s Paradox and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem (PDF)	No recitation
13	Midterm	No notes	No recitation
14	Good vs. Bad Dictatorships	Dictatorships (PDF - 1.1MB)	Recitation 5: Models of Participation (PDF)
15	Commitment problems in Dictatorship	No notes	No recitation
16	The Logic of Collective Action	Collective Action Lecture 1 (PDF)	No recitation
17	Ethnic Heterogeneity and Contributions to Public Goods	Collective Action Lecture 2 (PDF)	Recitation 6: Relationship Between Regime Type and Economic Outcomes and A Related Question: The Size of the State and the Government (PDF)
18	Monitoring and Collective Action Problems	No notes	No recitation
19	Recovery from Civil War. Special	Conflict Lecture 1 (PDF - 1.2MB)	Recitation 7: The Free Rider Problem and Social Norm and Social Pressure (PDF)
20	Why Do Wars Happen?	No notes	No recitation
21	Civil War	No notes	Recitation 8: Introduction to Game Theory (PDF)
22	Is Corruption Inefficient?	Corruption Lecture 1 (PDF)	No recitation
23	The Corrupt Official’s Decision Problem: Balancing Risks, Rents, and Incentives	Corruption Lecture 2 (PDF)	Recitation 9: Measurement of Corruption and Corrupt People (PDF)
24	The Industrial Organization of Corruption	Corruption Lecture 3 (PDF)	No recitation
25	Politicians and Firms	Corruption Lecture 4 (PDF)	Recitation 10: Review Session for the Final Exam and Theory Problem (PDF)
26	Wrap Up	No notes	No recitation