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THE WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW, VOL. 17, NO. 1, 133-143
© 2003 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank

A New Development Database

Particularism around the World

Jessica Seddon Wallack, Alejandro Gaviria, Ugo Panizza and Ernesto Stein

Jessica Seddon Wallack is a graduate student in political economics in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University; her e-mail address is jseddon{at}stanford.edu. Alejandro Gaviria is Deputy Director of the Planning Department, Colombia at Fedesarollo; his e-mail address is agaviria{at}dnp.gov.co. Ugo Panizza is Economist in the Research Department at the Inter-American Development Bank; his e-mail address is ugop{at}iadb.org. Ernesto Stein is Principal Economist in the Research Department at the Inter-American Development Bank; his e-mail address is ernestos{at}iadb.org.

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This article presents a new data set on electoral systems and outlines its potential uses in research on the links between electoral systems and economic outcomes. The data measure the extent to which politicians can advance their careers by appealing to narrow geographic constituencies on the one hand or party constituencies on the other.


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