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You Get What You Vote For: Electoral Determinants of Economic Freedom

Crampton, Eric - EconWPA - 2002

While several cross-sectional studies (La Porta et. al. 2002, Norton 2002) examine institutional and cultural determinants of economic freedom, changes in economic freedom remain unexamined. I construct a measure of median voter preferences and find changes in voter preferences for economic...

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Explaining de facto judicial independence

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - EconWPA - 2003

Judicial Independence (JI) as factually implemented varies considerably between countries. Since de iure JI is an imperfect predictor of de facto JI, a number of variables that might determine the factual level of judicial independence is theoretically discussed and empirically tested. A...

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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in $ parity, because they are linked to Euro. This is due to USA …'s approach to control other nations in the world,through unilateral Army power,tie up of domestic markets towards USA, and … Pumping wealth from developed nations. A Notional Balance sheet of USA, balances only with a Loss to the Assets(Debit). This …

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Distributive Politics in a Strong Party System: Evidence from Canadian Job Grant Programs

Crampton, Eric - EconWPA - 2002

The distributive politics literature following Weingast (1979) predicts majoritarian redistribution within countries governed by strong party systems. This prediction is tested using evidence from Canadian job creation grant programs active during the mid-1990s. Results provide strong evidence...

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An Enabling Mechanism for the Creation, Adjustment, and Dissolution of States and Governmental Units

Hausken, Kjell; Knutsen, John F. - EconWPA - 2004

The article proposes an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of governmental units, giving autonomy to each resident as in a direct democracy. Rather than focusing on a narrow model with restrictive and specialized assumptions, and subsequent solutions, as has been...

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To Be or Not To Be in Office Again: Political Business Cycles with Local Governments

Baleiras, Rui Nuno; Costa, José da Silva - EconWPA - 2003

microeconomic theory (welfare maximisation by the individual agent), our model provides another foundation for the emergence of …

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Why Is the Japanese Conviction Rate So High?

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent -- why? On the one hand, because Japanese prosecutors are badly understaffed they may prosecute only their strongest cases and present judges only with the most obviously guilty defendants. On the other, because Japanese judges can be reassigned by the...

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The Effects of Congressional Appropriation Committee Membership on the Distribution of Federal Research Funding to Universities

Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001

This paper examines the impact of congressional representation of a university through district representation or an alma mater affiliation on the distribution of research funding to research and doctoral universities in the United States. Because appropriations are allocated to agencies on an...

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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A WEAK JUDICIARY: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA

Koehling, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002

This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state-level per capita income and poverty rates. I define the...

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Why Do Policy Makers Stick to Inefficient Decisions?

Dur, Robert A.J. - EconWPA - 1999

effects of implemented policies. I derive the optimal policy maker's decision on continuation of a policy, assuming that …

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