Development outcomes come in ‘clusters’ that seem difficult to exit. Using original data from Colombia, we present evidence of the interconnection between two critical political components: state weakness and clientelism. State weakness creates the right environment for clientelism to ourish. Clientelism sets in place a structure of incentives for politicians and citizens that is detrimental to building state capacity. We show that vote buying, as a measure of clientelism, and tax evasion, as a measure of state weakness, are highly correlated at the individual level. We also report evidence that both practices are widely accepted in society, a result consistent with a deeply entrenched relationship of mutually reinforcing in uences. Finally, we propose a set of mechanisms that underlie the hypothesis that a weak state and widespread clientelism are part of a political equilibrium with multiple feedback loops. Our results suggest that state weakness is a trap that is likely hard to exit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Development outcomes come in ‘clusters’ that seem difficult to exit. Using original data from Colombia, we present evidence of the interconnection between two critical political components: state weakness and clientelism. State weakness creates the right environment for clientelism to ourish. Clientelism sets in place a structure of incentives for politicians and citizens that is detrimental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-7405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investigacion","tag-investigacion"],"acf":{"intro_image":6875,"evento_pasado":"pasado","archivo":"","fecha_evento":"","dirigido_a":"Estudiantes e investigadores","ubicacion":"Universidad de los Andes","lider":"Uniandes","equipo":"","url_practica":"https:\/\/treespre.uniandes.edu.co","fecha_cierre_oportunidad":null,"url_oportunidad":"","url_ensenanza":"","autores":"Leopoldo Fergusson, Carlos A. Molina, James A. Robinson","link_para_paper":"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1992\/41137"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trees.uniandes.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trees.uniandes.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trees.uniandes.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trees.uniandes.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trees.uniandes.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trees.uniandes.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9263,"href":"https:\/\/trees.uniandes.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions\/9263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trees.uniandes.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trees.uniandes.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trees.uniandes.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}