Rent-seeking, reform, and special influence groups: insights from Afghanistan

• In Event: Retheorizing Political Parties

Brief Overview

The paper explores how rent-seeking interest groups shape political, economic, and institutional development in the long run. Competition among interest groups in fragile LDCs entails social costs beyond the sum of Harberger and Tullock's costs.

Author

• Mirwais Parsa, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus