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Pablo Balán

Pablo Balán is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and an Affiliate Fellow at the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research examines how informal institutions shape public policy in developing countries, with recent work on state capacity, social networks, and firms. His research has appeared in journals including the American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and World Development.
Money in Politics

Family Ties as Corporate Power

Pablo Balán
Pablo Balán explains that family ties provide firms with an edge in collective action that enables them to be politically active through campaign donations, to engage in financial rent-seeking by obtaining subsidized state credit, and to bypass regulation seeking to curtail the influence of business by substituting individual contributions for corporate contributions. Scholars and advocates can benefit from a deeper understanding of organizational constraints to programmatic reform.

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