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Replication data for: Mission or Empire, Word or Sword? The Human Capital Legacy in Post-Colonial Democratic Development
No full textTwo replication datasets relating to the article Lankina, Tomila V. and Getachew, Lullit (2012) Mission or empire, word or sword? The human capital legacy in postcolonial democratic development. American journal of political science, 56 (2), pp. 465-483. ISSN 0092-5853
Parametric and nonparametric measures of productive performance: The case of private manufacturing in Egypt
No full textThis dissertation investigates the productive performance of the private manufacturing sector of Egypt, particularly within the context of economic reforms undertaken since the early 1990s. Beginning in 1991, the Egyptian government implemented reforms to achieve macroeconomic stabilization and to promote private sector development. We utilize complementary methodologies to analyze the growth of total factor productivity (TFP) and its decomposition into efficiency and technical change. We use nonparametric methods, including the Malmquist and Tornqvist approaches to measuring TFP, along with stochastic frontier methods to undertake the analysis. It is well known that the stochastic frontier approaches have the advantage of allowing statistical noise in the measurement of efficiency while the nonparametric methods do not. However, we use recently developed bootstrapping methods to study the sensitivity of the nonparametric indices to sampling variation of the frontier they measure.
The analysis is based on a newly developed panel of 28 three-digit sectors from 1987/88 to 1995/96. Our analysis indicates that a considerable increase in technical progress is due to the loosening of impediments to competitive forces. We find that growth in total factor productivity would be higher if growth in technical efficiency were higher. Cost savings are found as a result of the increase in total factor productivity.
We also use a generalized cost function to study the impact of the economic environment on all sectors. This approach, which subsumes the 'naive' neoclassical cost function as a special case, allows us to assess the impact of institutional constraints on the structure of production, including factor demands, total cost and scale economies. Our findings indicate the presence of substantial distortions in relative prices, and hence on cost efficiency, due to the binding institutional and regulatory constraints. In addition, we find that these inefficiencies are magnified among large firms. We find improvements in efficiency as a result of reforms initiated to remove the constraints
Replication data for: Mission or Empire, Word or Sword? The Human Capital Legacy in Post-Colonial Democratic Development
No full textAuthor-constructed dataset employing India's colonial and post-colonial census records, as well as data from other sources to analyze the impact of British colonial legacies on human capital and democracy in India's districts. Abstract: Why are some former colonies more democratic than others? The British Empire has been singled out in the debates on colonialism for its benign influence on democracy. Much of this scholarship has focused on colonialism's institutional legacies; has neglected to distinguish among the actors associated with colonialism; and has been nation-state focused. Our subnational approach allows us to isolate the democracy effects of key actors operating in colonial domains—Christian missionaries—from those of colonial powers. Missionaries influenced democracy by promoting education; education promoted social inclusivity and spurred social reform movements. To make our case, we constructed colonial and postcolonial period district datasets of India and conducted panel analysis of literacy and democracy variations backed by case studies. The findings challenge the conventional wisdom of the centrality of the effects of British institutions on democracy, instead also highlighting the missionaries’ human capital legacies. (2013-07-29
Replication data for: Mission or Empire, Word or Sword? The Human Capital Legacy in Post-Colonial Democratic Development
No full textAuthor-constructed dataset employing India's colonial and post-colonial census records, as well as data from other sources to analyze the impact of British colonial legacies on human capital and democracy in India's districts. Abstract: Why are some former colonies more democratic than others? The British Empire has been singled out in the debates on colonialism for its benign influence on democracy. Much of this scholarship has focused on colonialism's institutional legacies; has neglected to distinguish among the actors associated with colonialism; and has been nation-state focused. Our subnational approach allows us to isolate the democracy effects of key actors operating in colonial domains—Christian missionaries—from those of colonial powers. Missionaries influenced democracy by promoting education; education promoted social inclusivity and spurred social reform movements. To make our case, we constructed colonial and postcolonial period district datasets of India and conducted panel analysis of literacy and democracy variations backed by case studies. The findings challenge the conventional wisdom of the centrality of the effects of British institutions on democracy, instead also highlighting the missionaries’ human capital legacies
Replication data for: Mission or Empire, Word or Sword? The Human Capital Legacy in Post-Colonial Democratic Development
No full textAuthor-constructed dataset employing India's colonial and post-colonial census records, as well as data from other sources to analyze the impact of British colonial legacies on human capital and democracy in India's districts. Abstract: Why are some former colonies more democratic than others? The British Empire has been singled out in the debates on colonialism for its benign influence on democracy. Much of this scholarship has focused on colonialism's institutional legacies; has neglected to distinguish among the actors associated with colonialism; and has been nation-state focused. Our subnational approach allows us to isolate the democracy effects of key actors operating in colonial domains—Christian missionaries—from those of colonial powers. Missionaries influenced democracy by promoting education; education promoted social inclusivity and spurred social reform movements. To make our case, we constructed colonial and postcolonial period district datasets of India and conducted panel analysis of literacy and democracy variations backed by case studies. The findings challenge the conventional wisdom of the centrality of the effects of British institutions on democracy, instead also highlighting the missionaries’ human capital legacies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The virtuous circles of Western exposure in Russian regions: a case for micro-polity analysis of democratic change.
Get PDFExposure to democratic values has been regarded as a significant factor in the diffusion of democracy, and has also been linked through conditionality to assistance from Western agencies. Diffusion and the targeting of such assistance in a country of the size of Russia is likely to be uneven, however, implying uneven effects, as public authorities, private businesses and the broader citizenry are exposed to varying levels of influence according to the level of diffusion and assistance applied in particular regions. Statistical analysis shows regional exposure levels to be higher in regions that lie in closer proximity to the West, even when urbanization, gross regional product and other domestic variables are held constant. This further implies that methodological approaches to democratization based on assessing the ‘whole nation’ miss the significance of geographical factors in post-communist political change, which will need to be addressed in future analyses
Econometric TFP Targets, Incentive Regulation and the Ontario Gas Distribution Industry
No full textWe present a price cap mechanism, which features an external standard, constructed to elicit efficient utility performance. We focus on a method for setting the external standard, which is usually based on industry total factor productivity (TFP), when 'peer' data are not readily available. The procedure is based on an econometric cost model and externalizes the performance target or TFP by using a combination of industry and individual utility data. To highlight the importance of the method, we profile the approach that was considered and partly adopted in the current incentive regulation plan of Ontario's gas distribution industry.
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