Economic Elites and the Constitutional Design of Sharing and Dividing Power: Constraining, Dispersing, and Inclusive Institutions

• In Event: Rule of Law, Constitutions, and Representation (Co-sponsored with Section 74: Subfield: Political Institutions)

Brief Overview

We develop a theory of how diversity in economic elites is beneficial to the development of "power-sharing institutions." In order to test our argument, we create a novel instrument measuring levels of resource diversity at the country level.

Authors

• Victoria Paniagua, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Jan P. Vogler, University of Virginia