Abstract
Martin Paldam is one of the most prominent figures of Danish economics and European public choice. In this introduction to the special issue, we identify five of the areas, where he has made significant contributions: (1) vote and popularity functions and political business cycles; (2) democracy and institutions; (3) the economics of corruption; (4) development aid; and (5) social capital.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., Robinson, J. A., & Yared, P. (2008). Income and democracy. The American Economic Review, 98(3), 808–842.
Borner, S., & Paldam, M. (Eds.) (1998). The political dimensions of economic growth. London: Macmillan.
Djankov, S., Montalvo, J., & Reynal-Querol, M. (2008). The curse of aid. Journal of Economic Growth, 13, 169–194.
Doucouliagos, H., & Paldam, M. (2009). The aid effectiveness literature: the sad results of 40 years of research. Journal of Economic Surveys, 23, 433–461.
Doucouliagos, H., & Paldam, M. (2010). Conditional aid effectiveness: a meta study. Journal of International Development, 22, 391–410.
Doucouliagos, H., & Paldam, M. (2011). The ineffectiveness of development aid on economic growth: an update. European Journal of Political Economy, 27, 399–404.
Friedman, M. (1958). Foreign economic aid: means and objectives. Yale Review, 47(4), 501–516.
Gundlach, E., & Paldam, M. (2009a). A farewell to critical junctures: sorting out long-run causality of income and democracy. European Journal of Political Economy, 25(3), 340–354.
Gundlach, E., & Paldam, M. (2009b). The transition of corruption: from poverty to honesty. Economics Letters, 103(3), 146–148.
Hansen, H., & Tarp, F. (2000). Aid effectiveness disputed. Journal of International Development, 12, 375–398.
Hibbs, D. A. (1996). On ad-hominem assertion and scientific discourse in the study of sociotropic and egocentric motivations of political attitudes and behaviour. Scandinavian Political Studies, 19(3), 283–290.
Jensen, P. S., & Paldam, M. (2006). Can the two new aid-growth models be replicated? Public Choice, 127(1–2), 147–175.
Knack, S., & Keefer, P. (1997). Does social capital have an economic pay-off? A cross-country investigation. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112, 1251–1288.
Kurrild-Klitgaard, P. (2006). Editor’s introduction. In G. Tullock, The vote motive (pp. 15–20) P. Kurrild-Klitgaard (Ed.). London: Institute of Economic Affairs. 30th anniversary ed. of Gordon Tullock’s “The Vote Motive” (1976).
Lewis-Beck, M. S., & Paldam, M. (2000). Economic voting: an introduction. Electoral Studies, 19(2–3), 113–121.
Lewis-Beck, M. S., Stubager, R., & Nadeau, R. (2013). The Kramer problem: micro-macro resolution with a Danish pool. Electoral Studies, 32(3), 500–505.
Lipset, S. M. (1959). Some social requisites of democracy: economic development and political legitimacy. American Political Science Review, 53(1), 69–105.
Meltzer, A. H., & Richard, S. F. (1981). A rational theory of the size of government. Journal of Political Economy, 89(5), 914–927.
Mosley, P., Hudson, J., & Horrell, S. (1987). Aid, the public sector and the market in developing countries. Economic Journal, 97, 616–641.
Nannestad, P. (1993). Paradigm, school, or sect? Some reflections on the status of rational choice theory in contemporary Scandinavian political science. Scandinavian Political Studies, 16(2), 127–147.
Nannestad, P., & Paldam, M. (1994). The VP-function: a survey on the literature on vote and popularity functions after twenty-five years. Public Choice, 79(213), 245.
Nannestad, P., & Paldam, M. (1997). From the pocketbook of the welfare man: a pooled cross-section study of economic voting in Denmark, 1986–1992. British Journal of Political Science, 27, 119–136.
Ovaska, T. (2003). The failure of foreign aid. The Cato Journal, 23(2), 175–188.
Paldam, M. (1979). Is there an electional cycle? A comparative study of national accounts. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 81(2), 323–342.
Paldam, M. (1997). Dansk ulandshjælp: altruismens politiske økonomi. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
Paldam, M. (2000). Social capital: one or many? Definition and measurement. Journal of Economic Surveys, 14, 629–653.
Paldam, M. (2002). The cross-country pattern of corruption: economics, culture and the seesaw dynamics. European Journal of Political Economy, 18(2), 215–240.
Paldam, M., & Gundlach, E. (2012). The democratic transition: short-run and long-run causality between income and the Gastil index. European Journal of Development Research, 24(1), 144–168.
Paldam, M., & Svendsen, G. T. (2000). An essay on social capital: looking for the fire behind the smoke. European Journal of Political Economy, 16, 339–366.
Papanek, G. F. (1972). The effect of aid and other resource transfers on savings and growth in less developed countries. Economic Journal, 82, 934–950.
Putnam, R. D., Leonardi, R., & Nanetti, R. Y. (1993). Making democracy work: civic traditions in modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Young, A. T., & Sheehan, K. M. (2013). Foreign aid, institutional quality, and growth (Working paper). http://ssrn.com/abstract=2058567.
Acknowledgements
The authors are very grateful to the editors of Public Choice for accepting this Festschrift in Martin Paldam’s honor and in particular to Bill Shughart for his very important and invaluable help with the editing of the papers.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Aidt, T.S., Bjørnskov, C., Kurrild-Klitgaard, P. et al. Public choice, political economy and development: an introduction to the life, times and themes of Martin Paldam. Public Choice 157, 357–365 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-013-0137-z
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-013-0137-z