Development -- Adam Brown, BYU Political Science

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Summaries tagged Development

Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson: The colonial origins of comparative development
Akerlof: The market for lemons
Aldrich: Why parties
Burnham: Critical elections and the mainsprings of American politics
Burnham: Party systems and the political process
Dalton and Wattenberg: Parties without partisans
Dodd: Congress and the quest for power
Engstrom and Kernell: Manufactured responsiveness
Engstrom and Kernell: Manufactured responsiveness
Kernell and McDonald: Congress and American political development
Kernell and McDonald: Congress and American political development
Key: A theory of critical elections
Kitschelt: Linkages between citizens and politicans in democratic politics
Mainwaring and Scully: Building democratic institutions
Mayhew: Electoral realignments
Muller and Strom: Policy, office, or votes
Olson: Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development
Polsby: The consequencies of party reform
Popkin: Public choice and rural development
Przeworski, Alvarez, Cheibub, and Limongi: Democracy and development
Schlesinger: On the theory of party organization
Shleifer and Vishny: Corruption
Shugart: Presidentialism, parliamentarism, and the provision of collective goods in less-developed countries
Skowronek: Building a new American state
Skowronek: Building a new American state
Weber: The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
Weingast: The economic role of political institutions

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This portion of my website (/notes/) is the site formerly known as wikisum.com. Many years ago, my friends in graduate school and I would routinely share our reading notes with one another. We all read each article, but we crowdsourced the responsibility of summarizing our readings. When we were preparing for our comprehensive exams, I collected many of these summaries from peers and imported them into a wiki (wikisummary, or wikisum), hoping it would take off and attract hordes of graduate students and political scientists interested in maintaining an up-to-date knowledge base of all political science has to offer. It turns out I was too optimistic. Hundreds of people read the summaries, but almost nobody contributed new ones. Eventually, I quit renewing the wikisum domain and converted the contents into this static website. The summaries grow more dated each year, but since they might still have some use, they're still here—even if the name "wikisum" has become a bit of a misnomer. Enjoy.