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Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics
Grossman, Gene M. - 2005
Polities differ in the extent to which political parties can pre-commit to carry out promised policy actions if they take power. Commitment problems may arise due to a divergence between the ex ante incentives facing national parties that seek to capture control of the legislature and the ex...
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When Will the Germans Get Trapped in their Pension System?
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001
The upcoming demographic crisis in Germany demands fundamental reforms of the pension system. In a democracy, reforms are, however, only feasible when they are supported by the majority of the electorate. To determine whether the majority is in favor of reforms of the pension system, we...
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Equilibrium Political Budget Cycles
Rogoff, Kenneth - 1987
Prior to elections, governments (at all levels) frequently undertake a consumption binge. Taxes are cut, transfers are raised, and government spending is distorted towards highly visible items. The "political business cycle" (better be thought of as "the political budget cycle") has been...
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Incumbency Advantage in Non-Democracies
Egorov, Georgy - 2014
main opponents. At the same time, formally winning the election does not guarantee staying in power. We present a unified …
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Race and the Politics of Close Elections
Vogl, Tom - 2012
Elections between black and white candidates tend to involve close margins and high turnout. Using a novel dataset of municipal vote returns during the rise of black mayors in U.S. cities, this paper establishes new facts about turnout and competition in close interracial elections. In the...
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Union Success in Representation Elections : Why Does Unit Size Matter?
Farber, Henry S. - 1999
I establish four facts regarding the pattern of NLRB supervised representation election activity over the past 45 years …: 1) the quantity of election activity has fallen sharply and discontinuously since the mid-70's after increasing between … forty years. I develop a simple optimizing model of the union decision to hold a representation election that can account …
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Electoral Turnovers
Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Rollet, Vincent - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In most national elections, voters face a key choice between continuity and change. Electoral turnovers occur when the incumbent candidate or party fails to win reelection. To understand how turnovers affect national outcomes, we study the universe of presidential and parliamentary elections...
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Independent Regulators and Financial Stability : Evidence from Gubernatorial Campaigns and a Progressive Era Policy Experiment
Del Angel, Marco; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
supervision. After this change, failure rates declined during gubernatorial election campaigns for banks under gubernatorial …
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Representation Failure
Iaryczower, Matias; Montero, Sergio; Kim, Galileu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Democratic representation is constrained by the alternatives available to voters. In this paper, we develop a methodology to gauge the extent to which the "supply side" of politics hinders voter welfare. Using rich data on thousands of candidates in three Brazilian legislative elections, we...
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Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability
Iaryczower, Matiás; Meirowitz, Adam; Lopez-Moctezuma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Quantifying the value that legislators give to reelection relative to policy is crucial to understanding electoral accountability. We estimate the preferences for office and policy of members of the US Senate, using a structural approach that exploits variation in polls, position-taking and...
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