Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development

The ability of citizens to act collectively plays a central role in major debates in the political economy of development, including the causes and consequences of democratization and clientelism. This essay uses two lines of research to underscore...

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Main Author:	Keefer, Philip
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	BUDGET CYCLE BUREAUCRACY CANDIDATES CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTIES CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE ACTION COLLECTIVE ACTION PROBLEM COLLECTIVE ACTION PROBLEMS COLLECTIVE INTEREST COLLECTIVE INTERESTS COMPETITORS CONSTITUENCIES CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUENT DECISION MAKERS DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DICTATORSHIP DIRECT DEMOCRACY ECONOMIC POLICIES ELECTION ELECTIONS ELECTORAL SUCCESS EMERGING DEMOCRACIES EMPLOYMENT ERP FIRMS FRANCHISE FREE PRESS HUMAN CAPITAL INDIVIDUALS JOB CREATION LEGISLATORS LIMITED LOYALTY MAJORITIES MUNICIPALITIES PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY PARTY LEADERSHIP PATRONAGE PEACE POLICY ISSUES POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY POLITICAL ACTIVITY POLITICAL CHANGE POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL PARTY POLITICAL PROCESS POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SUPPORT POLITICIANS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC INTEREST PUBLIC POLICY REPRESENTATIVES RIGHT TO VOTE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIETIES SOCIETY SUFFRAGE UNION VOTING VOTING PATTERNS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/08/18143375/organizing-prosperity-collective-action-political-parties-political-economy-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16016

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spelling	okr-10986-160162021-04-23T14:03:27Z Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development Keefer, Philip BUDGET CYCLE BUREAUCRACY CANDIDATES CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTIES CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE ACTION COLLECTIVE ACTION PROBLEM COLLECTIVE ACTION PROBLEMS COLLECTIVE INTEREST COLLECTIVE INTERESTS COMPETITORS CONSTITUENCIES CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUENT DECISION MAKERS DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DICTATORSHIP DIRECT DEMOCRACY ECONOMIC POLICIES ELECTION ELECTIONS ELECTORAL SUCCESS EMERGING DEMOCRACIES EMPLOYMENT ERP FIRMS FRANCHISE FREE PRESS HUMAN CAPITAL INDIVIDUALS JOB CREATION LEGISLATORS LIMITED LOYALTY MAJORITIES MUNICIPALITIES PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY PARTY LEADERSHIP PATRONAGE PEACE POLICY ISSUES POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY POLITICAL ACTIVITY POLITICAL CHANGE POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL PARTY POLITICAL PROCESS POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SUPPORT POLITICIANS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC INTEREST PUBLIC POLICY REPRESENTATIVES RIGHT TO VOTE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIETIES SOCIETY SUFFRAGE UNION VOTING VOTING PATTERNS The ability of citizens to act collectively plays a central role in major debates in the political economy of development, including the causes and consequences of democratization and clientelism. This essay uses two lines of research to underscore the importance of explicitly introducing the organization of collective action into these debates. Exhaustive research on the management of open access resources demonstrates that citizens' ability to act collectively depends on non-trivial organizational arrangements that allow leaders to sanction free-riding and allow members to replace leaders if they shirk. Other research demonstrates wide variability in the organization of political parties. In countries where political parties do not have these two organizational characteristics, public policies are less friendly to economic development. This evidence suggests that in future research on democracy, state-building and development, citizen organization should be a central object of analysis. 2013-10-02T17:09:02Z 2013-10-02T17:09:02Z 2013-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/08/18143375/organizing-prosperity-collective-action-political-parties-political-economy-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16016 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6583 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	BUDGET CYCLE BUREAUCRACY CANDIDATES CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTIES CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE ACTION COLLECTIVE ACTION PROBLEM COLLECTIVE ACTION PROBLEMS COLLECTIVE INTEREST COLLECTIVE INTERESTS COMPETITORS CONSTITUENCIES CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUENT DECISION MAKERS DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DICTATORSHIP DIRECT DEMOCRACY ECONOMIC POLICIES ELECTION ELECTIONS ELECTORAL SUCCESS EMERGING DEMOCRACIES EMPLOYMENT ERP FIRMS FRANCHISE FREE PRESS HUMAN CAPITAL INDIVIDUALS JOB CREATION LEGISLATORS LIMITED LOYALTY MAJORITIES MUNICIPALITIES PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY PARTY LEADERSHIP PATRONAGE PEACE POLICY ISSUES POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY POLITICAL ACTIVITY POLITICAL CHANGE POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL PARTY POLITICAL PROCESS POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SUPPORT POLITICIANS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC INTEREST PUBLIC POLICY REPRESENTATIVES RIGHT TO VOTE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIETIES SOCIETY SUFFRAGE UNION VOTING VOTING PATTERNS
spellingShingle	BUDGET CYCLE BUREAUCRACY CANDIDATES CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTIES CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE ACTION COLLECTIVE ACTION PROBLEM COLLECTIVE ACTION PROBLEMS COLLECTIVE INTEREST COLLECTIVE INTERESTS COMPETITORS CONSTITUENCIES CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUENT DECISION MAKERS DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DICTATORSHIP DIRECT DEMOCRACY ECONOMIC POLICIES ELECTION ELECTIONS ELECTORAL SUCCESS EMERGING DEMOCRACIES EMPLOYMENT ERP FIRMS FRANCHISE FREE PRESS HUMAN CAPITAL INDIVIDUALS JOB CREATION LEGISLATORS LIMITED LOYALTY MAJORITIES MUNICIPALITIES PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY PARTY LEADERSHIP PATRONAGE PEACE POLICY ISSUES POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY POLITICAL ACTIVITY POLITICAL CHANGE POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL PARTY POLITICAL PROCESS POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SUPPORT POLITICIANS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC INTEREST PUBLIC POLICY REPRESENTATIVES RIGHT TO VOTE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIETIES SOCIETY SUFFRAGE UNION VOTING VOTING PATTERNS Keefer, Philip Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development
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description	The ability of citizens to act collectively plays a central role in major debates in the political economy of development, including the causes and consequences of democratization and clientelism. This essay uses two lines of research to underscore the importance of explicitly introducing the organization of collective action into these debates. Exhaustive research on the management of open access resources demonstrates that citizens' ability to act collectively depends on non-trivial organizational arrangements that allow leaders to sanction free-riding and allow members to replace leaders if they shirk. Other research demonstrates wide variability in the organization of political parties. In countries where political parties do not have these two organizational characteristics, public policies are less friendly to economic development. This evidence suggests that in future research on democracy, state-building and development, citizen organization should be a central object of analysis.
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author	Keefer, Philip
author_facet	Keefer, Philip
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title	Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development
title_short	Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development
title_full	Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development
title_fullStr	Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development
title_full_unstemmed	Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development
title_sort	organizing for prosperity : collective action, political parties and the political economy of development
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2013
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/08/18143375/organizing-prosperity-collective-action-political-parties-political-economy-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16016
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Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development

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