Michael T Dorsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael T Dorsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael T |
| FAMILY NAME | Dorsch |
| SIGNATURE | DORSCH M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2856-8397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The youth dividend
This paper revisits the political economy of transitions to democracy. We extend a canonical rational choice model of democratization by introducing demographic structure, arguing that it shapes the material incentives for political mobilization. Younger cohorts benefit from democratic change over a longer horizon and face lower costs of participation, as they are less economically and socially integrated. As a result, increases in the youth shar…
How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition
Land invasions and contemporary slavery
Do landless social movements reduce labor coercion? We examine this question using a panel dataset on contemporary slavery and land invasions in Brazil from 1995 to 2013. On average, a single land invasion reduces the number of enslaved workers by 15–20% in a municipality-year. To ground the empirics, we develop a formal model of how invasions alter landowners’ incentives to employ coerced labor. We further show that invasions do not raise the li…
Policy Evaluation in Polarized Polities
This paper provides a political-economic analysis of policy evaluation. We focus on Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) as a subset of policy evaluations and argue that they are used instrumentally by decision-makers in order to improve perceptions of reforms and help secure policy legacy. We theorize that this ’credibility premium’ is more valuable for incumbents in politically polarized societies, which we empirically examine using two methods.…
What, Where, Who, and Why? An Empirical Investigation of Positionality in Political Science Field Experiments
International audience
Economic downturns, inequality, and democratic improvements
Democratization and the Conditional Dynamics of Income Distribution
Despite strong theoretical reasons to expect that democratization equalizes income distributions, existing empirical studies do not find a statistically significant effect of democratization on measures of income inequality. This paper starts from the simple observation that autocracies are heterogeneous and govern quite extreme distributional outcomes (also egalitarian). Democratization may drive extreme income distributions to a "middle ground.…
Macro shocks and costly political action in non-democracies
Economic Development and Determinants of Environmental Concern
Objective This article examines the extent to which individual‐level determinants of environmental concern in underdeveloped economies differ from those in advanced economies. Methods To measure environmental concern, I use survey responses to environmental questions asked in 40 countries from the 2005–2008 wave of the World Values Survey. My econometric analysis tests the extent to which individual‐level determinants of environmental concern are…
Bailout for sale? The vote to save Wall Street
Social mobility and the demand for public consumption expenditures
Oudry's Painted Menagerie
Impressionists by the Sea by John House and David Hopkin
The Painted Face
Democratization and the Conditional Dynamics of Income Distribution
Despite strong theoretical reasons to expect that democratization equalizes income distributions, existing empirical studies do not find a statistically significant effect of democratization on measures of income inequality. This paper starts from the simple observation that autocracies are heterogeneous and govern quite extreme distributional outcomes (also egalitarian). Democratization may drive extreme income distributions to a "middle ground.…
Bailout for sale? The vote to save Wall Street
What, Where, Who, and Why? An Empirical Investigation of Positionality in Political Science Field Experiments
International audience
Macro shocks and costly political action in non-democracies
Economic Development and Determinants of Environmental Concern
Objective This article examines the extent to which individual‐level determinants of environmental concern in underdeveloped economies differ from those in advanced economies. Methods To measure environmental concern, I use survey responses to environmental questions asked in 40 countries from the 2005–2008 wave of the World Values Survey. My econometric analysis tests the extent to which individual‐level determinants of environmental concern are…
Social mobility and the demand for public consumption expenditures
Oudry's Painted Menagerie
Impressionists by the Sea by John House and David Hopkin
The Painted Face
Social mobility and the demand for public consumption expenditures
Bailout for sale? The vote to save Wall Street
Economic Development and Determinants of Environmental Concern
Objective This article examines the extent to which individual‐level determinants of environmental concern in underdeveloped economies differ from those in advanced economies. Methods To measure environmental concern, I use survey responses to environmental questions asked in 40 countries from the 2005–2008 wave of the World Values Survey. My econometric analysis tests the extent to which individual‐level determinants of environmental concern are…
Macro shocks and costly political action in non-democracies
Democratization and the Conditional Dynamics of Income Distribution
Despite strong theoretical reasons to expect that democratization equalizes income distributions, existing empirical studies do not find a statistically significant effect of democratization on measures of income inequality. This paper starts from the simple observation that autocracies are heterogeneous and govern quite extreme distributional outcomes (also egalitarian). Democratization may drive extreme income distributions to a "middle ground.…
Economic downturns, inequality, and democratic improvements
What, Where, Who, and Why? An Empirical Investigation of Positionality in Political Science Field Experiments
International audience
Policy Evaluation in Polarized Polities
This paper provides a political-economic analysis of policy evaluation. We focus on Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) as a subset of policy evaluations and argue that they are used instrumentally by decision-makers in order to improve perceptions of reforms and help secure policy legacy. We theorize that this ’credibility premium’ is more valuable for incumbents in politically polarized societies, which we empirically examine using two methods.…
The youth dividend
This paper revisits the political economy of transitions to democracy. We extend a canonical rational choice model of democratization by introducing demographic structure, arguing that it shapes the material incentives for political mobilization. Younger cohorts benefit from democratic change over a longer horizon and face lower costs of participation, as they are less economically and socially integrated. As a result, increases in the youth shar…
How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition
Land invasions and contemporary slavery
Do landless social movements reduce labor coercion? We examine this question using a panel dataset on contemporary slavery and land invasions in Brazil from 1995 to 2013. On average, a single land invasion reduces the number of enslaved workers by 15–20% in a municipality-year. To ground the empirics, we develop a formal model of how invasions alter landowners’ incentives to employ coerced labor. We further show that invasions do not raise the li…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (3 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)