Politics Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

“We call such institutions, which have opposite properties to those we call inclusive, extractive economic institutions—extractive because such institutions are designed to extract incomes…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“NATIONS FAIL TODAY because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Our theory has attempted to achieve this by operating on two levels. The first is the distinction between extractive and inclusive economic and political…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Inclusive economic and political institutions do not emerge by themselves. They are often the outcome of significant conflict between elites resisting economic growth and…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“The political institutions of a society are a key determinant of the outcome of this game. They are the rules that govern incentives in…

— Daron Acemoğlu

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and…

— Amartya Sen

“Legitimacy involves the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate or proper…

— Seymour Martin Lipset

“...what we are looking for is the appearance of political units persisting in time and fixed in space, the development of permanent, impersonal institutions,…

— Joseph Reese Strayer

“we are part of many institutions.”

— Cathy N. Davidson

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

— Henri La Fontaine

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless…

— Timothy Snyder