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A probabilistic measure of state fragility

Margalef, Joan - 2026

This paper develops a novel measure of state fragility: the probability of state failure. We define state failure as the inability to perform core functions and operationalize it through observable breakdowns- conflict, territorial control, institutional deficiency, and public service...

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Elgar encyclopedia of public choice

2025 - First edition

"The Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice offers a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field that bridges economics, political science, and philosophy. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe, this volume explores how incentives, institutions, and...

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Clientelism

Trantidis, Aris - 2025

This Element examines clientelism and its impact on democratic institutions and markets, emphasizing that, alongside electoral competition, politics hosts two additional arenas: one where political actors seek campaign resources and active supporters, and another where socioeconomic actors...

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It's time to move on from ESG

Globerman, Steven - 2024

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Governance failure and governance under failure : reviewing the role of directors in organizational misconduct

Paruchuri, Srikanth; Hoempler, Erik A.; Cowen, Amanda P.; … - 2024

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When the cat is away the mice will not play : the political economy of carbon emission trading systems

Bao, Helen X. H.; Tang, Tony He - 2024

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Government externalities

Trantidis, Aris - 2024

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Political economy : an Institutional and behavioral approach

Conrad, Christian A. - 2026 - Second edition

1. Introduction -- 2. Weaknesses in Economics and Economic Education -- 3. Basics of Political Economy -- 4. Modeling the Image of Man -- 5. The Functioning of Market and Competition -- 6. Theory of Economic Systems -- 7. Market Failure -- 8. Political Failure -- 9. Competition Policy -- 10....

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Political economy : an institutional and behavioral approach

Conrad, Christian A. - 2020

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Externalities, incentives, government failure, and the Coronavirus outbreak

Souza, Thiago de Oliveira - 2020

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Pension Provision : Government Failure Around the World

Booth, Philip; Bhandari, Laveesh - 2023

This monograph surveys the results of government intervention in the market for retirement income provision throughout the world. The authors begin by looking at high-income democracies in which governments have, to a large degree, taken over the function of providing pensions.They find that...

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Pension Provision : Government Failure Around the World

Booth, Philip - 2009

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Government failures and non-performing loans in Asian countries

Giammanco, Maria Daniela; Gitto, Lara; Ofria, Ferdinando - 2023

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The political economics of green transitions

Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten - 2023

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The political economics of green transitions

Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten - 2022

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Agent failures: a theory of internalities

Vallejo G., Hernán Eduardo - 2023

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Government Failure : E. G. West on Education

Tooley, James; Stanfield, James - 2023

This selection of E.G. West’s papers contains a wealth of economic and philosophical ananlysis which can guide policymakers in the field of Education. They also show how state monopoly provision of education has led to a particular model of schooling which does not work for many of those who...

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Government Failure : E.G. West on Education

Tooley, James; Stanfield, James - 2006

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Local context and post-crisis social venture creation

Anokhin, Sergey; Morgan, Todd; Christensen, Lisa Jones; … - 2023

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Nigeria's corruption score card

Stober, Emmanuel Olusegun - 2019

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Governing Public-Private Partnerships: The Problem of Low-Cost Decisions

Mause, Karsten - 2019

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Governing public-private partnerships : the problem of low-cost decisions

Mause, Karsten - 2019

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Markt- und Staatsversagen : Volkswirtschaftslehre einfach erklärt : mit eLearning-Kurs

Petersen, Thieß - 2025

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Transformation of the governance of failure for radical innovation : the role of strategic leaders

Gomes, Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos; Chaparro, … - 2025

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Bank of industry lending policy and growth of microenterprises in Anambra state : a focus on the leather-making clusters

Obianagwa, Christopher E.; Ezeani, Emmanuel O.; Ifem, … - 2025

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47. Government failure as failure of the market for politics

Eichenberger, Reiner; Stadelmann, David - 2025

Government failure can be understood as the failure of the market for politics. Externalities, monopoly power, and asymmetric information play a similar role in the market for politics as they do in markets for goods and services. Viewing government failure through this lens provides a unifying...

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Regulating Health Care : Perspectives From Government Failure During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hyman, David A.; Silver, Charles - 2022

Health care is beset with an array of market failures (e.g., informational asymmetries, externalities, monopolization, and public goods). In theory, government can intervene to fix these market failures, allowing scarce resources to be devoted to their highest use at the lowest possible cost...

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Institutional bias towards the status quo

Eterovic, Dalibor S. - 2011

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Institutional bias towards the status quo

Eterovic, Dalibor - 2009

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Institutional Bias Towards the Status Quo

Eterovic, Dalibor S. - 2022

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Carbon conundrum : how to save climate change policy from government failure

Booth, P.; Stagnaro, Carlo - 2022

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Municipal Failures

Leong, Nancy - 2022

Calls for reforming the civil rights enforcement regime often focus on individual government officers. Recent years have brought demands to abolish qualified immunity—a defense that protects individual officers from liability so long as they did not violate clearly established law—and to end...

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Government failures and non-performing loans in European countries : a spatial approach

Ofria, Ferdinando; Mucciardi, Massimo - 2022

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Ignorance and the incentive structure confronting policymakers

Scheall, Scott - 2018

The paper examines one of the considerations that determines the extent to which policymakers pursue the objectives demanded by constituents. The nature and extent of their ignorance serve to determine the incentives confronted by policymakers to pursue their constituents' demands. The paper...

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Ignorance and the incentive structure confronting policymakers

Scheall, Scott - 2018

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The Icarus curse : how Western democracies derailed and how to get back on track

Overtveldt, Johan van - 2024

"In The Icarus Curse, Van Overtveldt argues that decades of Keynesian-inspired policies have led to policy exhaustion, with politicians fueling unrealistic expectations and accumulating debt. Despite central bankers' efforts to mitigate crises, the current policy model is unsustainable, leaving...

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Free markets and health care : lessons from welfare economics

Courtemanche, Charles - 2024

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Complex externalities, pandemics, and public choice

Murtazashvili, Ilia; Zhou, Yang - 2024

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Constitutionalism and transnational governance failures

2024

"This Introduction summarizes the contents and explains the methodology of the book and of its main policy conclusions on how constitutional democracies should respond to the increasing governance failures inside and beyond states. All UN member states have employed constitutional law for...

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Staatliche Verantwortung und staatliches Versagen in der Coronakrise

Bodmer, Frank - 2021 - Zweite, korrigierte Fassung

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Staatliche Verantwortung und staatliches Versagen in der Coronakrise

Bodmer, Frank - 2021

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Reflections on the political economy of European wine appellations

Alston, Julian Mark; Gaeta, Davide - 2021

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Government Failure vs. the Market Process during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Powell, Benjamin - 2021

This paper argues that government policies such as lockdowns and command and control regulation of businesses have not efficiently addressed the nature of the Covid-19 externality because these interventions fail to take account of insights from standard price theory about the reciprocal nature...

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Government failures in development

Krueger, Anne O. - 1990

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Government Failures in Development

Krueger, Anne O. - 2021

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Government Failures in Development

Krueger, Anne O. - 1990

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Warlords, State Failures, and the Rise of Communism in China

Huang, Zhangkai - 2021

This paper documents that the spread of communism in China was partly caused by state failures in the early 20th century. It finds that famines became more frequent after China fell into warlord fragmentation, especially for prefectures with less rugged borders and those facing stronger military...

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The determinants of structural transformation in Asia : a review of the literature

Sen, Kunal - 2016

Structural transformation - the movement of workers from low-productivity to high-productivity activities - is an essential ingredient of inclusive growth. This paper reviews the evidence on why the pace of structural transformation has differed widely across countries in Asia, with a specific...

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Präventive Handlungsfähigkeit des Staates im 21. Jahrhundert

Sturn, Richard - 2020

Der Staat steht angesichts der Transformation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft durch die Digitalisierung, die Globalisierung und den Klimawandel vor neuen und großen Herausforderungen. Diesen wird er am besten gerecht, wenn er Probleme präventiv behandelt und nicht ex post „heilt“. Um die...

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Externalities, Incentives, Government Failure, and the Coronavirus Outbreak

de Oliveira Souza, Thiago - 2020

This paper derives and simulates a compartmental model of the Coronavirus outbreak in which individuals have self-interested reactions to the threat of infection, proportional to the heterogeneous risk of complications that they face. As long as high-risk individuals perceive infection as...

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Externalities, Incentives, Government Failure, and the Coronavirus Outbreak

de Oliveira Souza, Thiago - 2020

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Government Failure in the Farm Bill

Farren, Michael D.; Fitton, Gregory - 2020

The purpose of the original Farm Bill in 1933 was to protect small farmers from price fluctuations by limiting supply. Recent research illustrates how the USDA has grown far beyond its original intent and provides further evidence that Farm Bill subsidies are mostly provided to the largest, not...

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Late Soviet Britain : why materialist utopias fail

Innes, Abby - 2023

"Abby Innes argues that the Soviet revolution and British neoliberalism failed for many of the same theoretical and practical reasons. She shows how Britain championed radical economic liberalisation only to weaken and ultimately break its own governing institutions."

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Money versus Kudos : the impact of incentivizing local politicians in India

Mansuri, Ghazala; Palaniswamy, Nethra; Rao, Vijayendra; … - 2023

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Is air pollution a government failure or a market failure? : global evidence from a multi-dimensional analysis

Cong Minh Huynh; Quoc Nha Le; Thi Huong Tra Lam - 2023

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Mild Government Failure

Wei, Shang-jin; Xu, Jianhuan; Yin, Ge; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2023

A relatively mild form of government failure - for example, bureaucrats can count but do not differentiate quality - can significantly affect the efficacy of industrial policy. We investigate this idea in the context of China's largest pro-innovation industrial policy using a structural model....

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The pox of politics : Troesken's tradeoff reexamined

Furton, Glenn L. - 2023

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Chapter 12. Governance failure and firm-level crises: the case of the Volkswagen emissions scandal

Kano, Liena; Simoes, Sean; Verbeke, Alain - 2023

We use a micro-level perspective to analyze the antecedents, enablers, and consequences of a firm-level crisis: the Volkswagen emissions crisis, which reflects a failure of governance to meet commonly accepted standards of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Based on a qualitative analysis of...

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Burning the wealth of a nation : the Nigeria perspective

Famokunwa, Michael - 2023

"This book aims to provoke a change in the approach to Nigeria's challenges, highlighting the untapped potential in the individuals and the nation. The acquired knowledge should be willingly shared for the progress of Nigeria and for the benefit of all. The questions in this book are designed to...

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Private property rights, government interventionism and welfare economics

Jankovic, Ivan; Block, Walter - 2019

We develop a critique of government interventionism based on the Misesian calculation argument against socialism. If private property rights and relative prices based on supply and demand are necessary for successful economic coordination, then conventional market failure theories cannot be...

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Private property rights, government interventionism and welfare economics

Jankovic, Ivan; Block, Walter - 2019

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Consumption, Government Failure, and Asset Prices

de Oliveira Souza, Thiago - 2019

The equity premium-risk-free rate level and predictability puzzles in standard power utility consumption-based asset pricing models disappear once we remove the government-imposed component from the consumption expenditure series. I calibrate this component based on the growth rates of two...

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