Elites have a disproportionate impact on development outcomes. While a country's endowments constitute the deep determinates of growth, the trajectory they foll

Institutions, the humanly devised constraints of economic activity, are outcomes of elite agency. Leveraging ideas from economics, sociology, politics, and stra

This book identifies sources of power that help business and economic elites influence policy decisions.

This book helps to understand in which ways local governing elites are important for the success or failure of national democratic development. Although we know

Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the question of how different patter