政治权力、精英控制与长期发展：巴西的证据

IF 3.9 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of the European Economic Association Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI:10.1093/jeea/jvae033

Claudio Ferraz, Frederico Finan, Monica Martinez-Bravo

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本文分析了政治权力集中度的变化如何影响长期发展。我们研究了巴西的军事独裁政权，它的上台极大地改变了地方政治精英的权力分配。我们发现，在 20 世纪 60 年代独裁统治之前政治权力较为集中的城市，尽管最初较为贫穷，但在 2000 年却相对较为富裕。我们的证据表明，这种命运的逆转是军方旨在削弱传统精英权力的政策的结果。这些政策加剧了传统精英之间的政治竞争，从而改善了治理，提供了更多的公共产品，提高了收入水平。

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Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil

This paper analyzes how changes in the concentration of political power affect long-run development. We study Brazil’s military dictatorship whose rise to power dramatically altered the distribution of power of local political elites. We document that municipalities that were more politically concentrated prior to the dictatorship in the 1960s are relatively richer in 2000, despite being poorer initially. Our evidence suggests that this reversal of fortune was the result of the military’s policies aimed at undermining the power of traditional elites. These policies increased political competition among traditional elites, leading to better governance, more public goods, and higher income levels.

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