A spatial model of coalition formation is used together with data from Dutch elections and theoretical instances to …

government of an emerging democracy may fear political instability and keep the lid on potential unrest by bargaining with …

quality of democracy in developing countries. We present a simple theoretical framework, which captures the competitiveness of … elections through the Tullock's approach based on the Contest Success Function. We obtain an ambiguous theoretical effect of …

We introduce political economics into the soft budget constraint problem by asking if the timing of elections has the … worse - with synchronized elections, i.e. simultaneous central and regional office terms, or with staggered elections, i ….e. terms of office that do not coincide. We find that staggered elections clearly improve fiscal discipline at the local level …

A l'occasion du premier tour des élections présidentielles du 22 avril 2012, les électeurs de trois communes françaises …

A spatial model of coalition formation is used together with data from Dutch elections and theoretical instances to …

We introduce political economics into the soft budget constraint problem by asking if the timing of elections has the … worse - with synchronized elections, i.e. simultaneous central and regional office terms, or with staggered elections, i ….e. terms of office that do not coincide. We find that staggered elections clearly improve fiscal discipline at the local level …

In this paper, we analyze a spatial model of coalition formation with data from Dutch elections and with theoretical …