Bad Democracy Traps

The Economic Journal (forthcoming)

Gabriele Gratton, Barton E. Lee and Hasin Yousaf

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The Rise and Fall of Technocratic Democracies: Unstable Majorities and Delegation to Technocrats

Journal of European Public Policy (forthcoming)

Gabriele Gratton and Jacob Edenhofer

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Flight from Urban Blight: Lead Poisoning, Crime and Suburbanization

The Review of Economics and Statistics (2025)

Federico Msera and Federico Curci

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On the Economic Consequences of Mass Shootings

The Review of Economics and Statistics (2025)

Hasin Yousaf and Abel Brodeur

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Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy

American Journal of Political Science, (2024)

Marc S. Jacob

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Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies

Review of Economic Studies, 91(1): 340–371 (2024)

Gabriele Gratton and Barton E. Lee

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Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 15(4), 218–251 (2023)

Giorgio Gulino and Federico Masera

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Politics, Religion and the Evolution of the Welfare State

in "The Economics of Religion" (ed. Robert M. Sauer), World Scientific, 111–133 (2023)

Maleke Fourati, Gabriele Gratton, and Federico Masera

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Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138 (1): 413–463 (2023)

Pauline Grosjean, Federico Masera, and Hasin Yousaf

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Gridlock, leverage, and policy bundling

Journal of Public Economics, 212 (2022)

Barton E. Lee

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The Charitable Terrorist: State Capacity and the Support for the Pakistani Taliban

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 66(7-8):1174–1207 (2022)

Federico Masera and Hasin Yousaf

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The Charitable Terrorist: State Capacity and the Support for the Pakistani Taliban

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 66(7-8):1174–1207 (2022)

Federico Masera and Hasin Yousaf

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Optimal Checks And Balances Under Policy Uncertainty

International Economic Review, 63(2): 549–569 (2022)

Gabriele Gratton, Massimo Morelli

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From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws

American Economic Review 111(9): 2964–3003 (2021)

Gabriele Gratton, Luigi Guiso, Claudio Michelacci, and Massimo Morelli

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Sticking to One’s Guns: Mass Shootings and the Political Economy of Gun Control in the United States

Journal of the European Economic Association 19(5): 2765–2802 (2021)

Hasin Yousaf

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Render unto Caesar: Taxes, charity, and political Islam

European Economic Review 119: 114–146 (2019)

Maleke Fourati, Gabriele Gratton, and Pauline Grosjean

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When to Drop a Bombshell

Review of Economic Studies 85(4): 2139–2172 (2018)

Gabriele Gratton, Richard Holden, and Anton Kolotilin

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