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It is one of the less exciting insights of political science that institutional and political fragmentation make swift and coherent economic decision-making difficult (Chibber, 2002, 2004; Haggard/Kaufman, 1995; Tsebelis, 2002). While the present article generally agrees with this finding, it proposes one important, yet overlooked exception to this rule: When external pressure is applied on a polity, internal fragmentation can in fact dramatically accelerate change.