"Rents, Rules, or Revolution: A Survey of Institutional Pathways to Peace"
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This Companion provides a critical reading of Mayoral and Mueller's article Rents, rules, or revolution: a survey of institutional pathways to peace, published in the journal Economic Policy, through a systematic assessment of his theoretical and methodological contribution to the literature of peace and institutions. The critique focuses on how the essay organizes the field of knowledge across three institutional pathways, questioning the limits of this categorization in terms of methodological rigor and conceptual consistency. The authors also discuss the strengths of the review's comprehensiveness and its ability to link Political Economy and peace, as opposed to highlighting the shortcomings associated with the absence of explicit methodological standards and mixed levels of analysis. Criticism shows that the article provides a useful explanatory framework, but it remains closer to an analytical narrative review than to a well-controlled systematic review. Rafiu concludes that the value of the article lies more in systematizing the literature and opening up new research paths, than in providing definitive causal conclusions.
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