Goorha, Prateek. “POLITICO-ECONOMIC TRANSITIONS: EVOLUTION AND GROWTH.” (2004).
URL1 URL2
A theory that provides intuitive understanding of aprocess as complex as simultaneous political regime transition and growth in economic income would be avaluable addition to Political Science. In this paper, I attempt to provide such an explanation by employing simple insights from evolutionary game theory and developing their application to politico-economic transitions by borrowing freely from various other bodies of literature including economic growth, spatial voting models, and comparative politics. The result is a theoretical frame that comfortably deals with transition as a relatively smooth er dynamic and provides some explanation for how regime transition might occur. It also provides an example of a learning strategy for politicians, which generates the credibility required for successful economic reform and a rationale for democratization.