Search Results - subject:"legislative performance"

Legislative Effort and Career Paths in the Argentine Congress

Rossi, Martín; Tommasi, Mariano - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper uses data from the Argentine House of Representatives to study the relationship between legislative effort and political success, as measured by reelection, becoming a leader of the House, and moving to higher political positions. It is found that more effort is associated with a...

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Legislator characteristics and legislative outcomes in India

Panda, Sitakanta - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 3401-3416

can be part of a larger set of legislative performance indicators; in presence of data constraints, we argue these two can …We empirically test the prediction that the personal attributes of the legislators critically determine the legislative … performance of a legislature in an Indian context. Analyzing the data on the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) in the …

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Family Business: Causes and Consequences of Political Dynasties

Rossi, Martín - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 2012

I explore the causes of the existence of political dynasties in democratic societies. In particular, I investigate the causal relationship between tenure length and posterior dynastic success. Since tenure length is potentially endogenous in a model of political dynasties, I exploit a natural...

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