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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

19. The Political and Economic Consequences of Religious Legitimacy

Author : Jared Rubin

Published in: Advances in the Economics of Religion

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This essay assesses the political and economic consequences of religious legitimacy. I employ the framework proposed in Rubin (2017) to shed light on why religious legitimacy might matter for political and economic outcomes and how it affects economies differently from other mechanisms that rulers use to stay in power. I proceed to provide some historical support for the framework before concluding with some speculative thoughts on the role of religious legitimacy on economic outcomes in the twenty-first century.

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Footnotes
1
For related, but alternative, views of legitimacy, see Lipset (1959) and Greif and Tadelis (2010).
 
2
Legitimating agents have been shown to be important in determining all types of political and economic outcomes. For some examples, see Gill (1998), Platteau (2011), Coşgel et al. (2012), Chaney (2013), and Greif and Rubin (2018).
 
3
A related argument is put forth in a series of articles by Auriol and Platteau (2017a, b), who consider the role that centralization of religious authority plays in the relationship between religious and political authorities. Their argument suggests that more decentralized religions, like Sunni Islam, will be less willing to implement reforms and will be associated with less stable regimes.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Political and Economic Consequences of Religious Legitimacy
Author
Jared Rubin
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Advances in the Economics of Religion

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-98847-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-98848-1

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98848-1_19