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Political careers, government stability, and electoral cycles
Cipullo, Davide - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506545
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Elections, economic outcomes and policy in Canada : 1870 - 2015
Ferris, John Stephen; Voia, Marcel-Christian - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144858
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Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?
Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2015
(1975 - 2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard … is related to systemic vote buying which requires significant amounts of cash at election times. The finely timed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342347
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Analysis of municipal election outcomes in Romania
Jula, Nicolae-Marius; Jula, Dorin - 2011
In Romania, the 2008 local elections were held based on a new electoral law. The main changes concerned the election of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535918
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Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?
Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2015
increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can … neither be detected in established OECD democracies nor in the months leading up to the election. The effect is larger in … election month monetary expansion is demand driven and can be best explained by systemic vote buying. Systemic vote buying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491768
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Electoral rules for mayors and incentives to pork-barrel : quasi-experimental evidence from German municipalities ; conference paper
Hessami, Zohal - 2014
state tier. This e ffect only materializes in the election year which suggests that mayors under the new electoral rule put … more e ffort into grant applications for highly visible infrastructure projects in order to increase their re-election …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485272
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The information content of elections and varieties of the partisan political business cycle
Shelton, Cameron A. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003734292
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Electoral Intermediaries
Gallego, Jorge A. - 2020
Democratic elections increasingly involve political intermediaries (e.g. grassroots organizations or political brokers). We develop a model of electoral competition in which candidates must decide between brokers (patronage) and grassroots organizations. Our model shows that patronage is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832938
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Electoral Maldistricting
Gomberg, Andrei - 2020
We introduce a framework to examine, both theoretically and empirically, electoral maldistricting. Maldistricting is defined as districting in pursuit of a policy at the expense of social welfare. Analysis is performed on the set of implementable (via some district map) legislatures, which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836595
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Electoral Cycles in Macroprudential Regulation
Müller, Karsten - 2020
prices. Consistent with theories of opportunistic political cycles, this pattern is stronger when election outcomes are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852520