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Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 155:178-204
We provide a new framework to account for the diverging paths of political development in China and Japan during the late nineteenth century. The arrival of Western powers not only brought opportunities to adopt new technologies, but also fundamental
Patterns of political unification and fragmentation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that “fractured land” was responsible for China's tendency toward political unification and Europe'
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https://doi.org/10.3386/w27774
https://doi.org/10.3386/w27774
Publikováno v:
International Economic Review. 59:285-327
This article studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We argue that a severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered centralization in China, whereas Europe faced a wider v
Autor:
Melanie Meng Xue, Mark Koyama
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
This paper explores the impact of autocratic rule on social capital—defined as the beliefs, attitudes, norms and perceptions that support cooperation. Political repression is a distinguishing characteristic of autocratic regimes. Between 1660–178
Autor:
Mark Koyama, Melanie Meng Xue
Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching-based difference-in-differences estimator, we show that the persecution of scholar-officials led to a decline in the number of examine
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62103/1/MPRA_paper_62103.pdf
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62103/1/MPRA_paper_62103.pdf
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We provide a new framework to account for the diverging paths of political development and state building in China and Japan during the second half of the nineteenth century. The arrival of Western powers not only brought opportunities to adopt new t
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
This paper studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We argue that the severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered political centralization in China while Europe faced a