Format:
30 S.
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Tab., Lit. S. 21-23, Lit.Hinw.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online Ressource
Series Statement:
ZEI Working Paper 19-2003
Content:
This paper tests the relationship between primacy and economic development for countries in Asia and the Americas. It tests explanations for primacy drawn from several social-science disciplines - demography, economics, geography, political science, and sociology. The study is one of the first to use panel-data estimators for the tests. Economic and domestic political variables are found to be important determinants of primacy. In particular, rent-seeking and dictatorial governments are associated with primacy, but the association exists independent of the level of economic development. The implication from dependency and world-system theories that current international economic interactions promote primacy is not supported. It also examines the hypothesis that primacy first increases and then decreases with GDP per capita.
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Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Moomaw, Ronald Lee An empirical analysis of competing explanations of urban primacy Bonn : ZEI, 2003
Language:
English
Keywords:
Graue Literatur
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Arbeitspapier
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