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Does electoral strength affect politician's trade policy preferences? Evidence from Japan
Ito, Banri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This study examines the effect of electoral strength on politician's trade policy preferences using data of candidates running for the members of the House of Representatives in Japan. The results reveal that the electoral strength measured by the margin of vote affects candidates' trade policy...
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Who emerges from smoke-filled rooms? Political parties and candidate selection
Motz, Nicolas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents a model of candidate selection through political parties where politicians differ in terms of their quality and their favored policies. The central assumption is that political parties are better informed about their potential candidates than voters are. In addition, parties...
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Who emerges from smoke-filled rooms? Political parties and candidate selection
Motz, Nicolas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents a model of candidate selection through political parties where politicians differ in terms of their quality and their favored policies. The central assumption is that political parties are better informed about their potential candidates than voters are. Questions of interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112180
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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Electoral Competition
Becker, Johannes; Peichl, Andreas; Rincke, Johannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. We propose a simple theoretical model with politicians facing a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings. The model has a testable...
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The impact of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition: Evidence from a natural experiment
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Measuring the effect of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition is complicated because the stringency of ballot access regulations cannot be treated as being exogenous to candidates' entry decisions. This paper exploits the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Ohio's...
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The scope of political redistribution with proportional income taxation
Lopez-Rodriguez, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the politicians �incentives to pursue income redistribution when governments are constrained to levy taxes on labor income and this creates distortions. Politicians who strive to be elected may strategically redistribute through in-kind rather than cash transfers and...
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The Political Economy of In-Kind Redistribution
Lopez-Rodriguez, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Why do politicians redistribute resources through in-kind rather than cash transfers? This paper examines political incentives for in-kind government redistribution. By analyzing the political game between o¢ ce-motivated politicians and self-interested citizens, I �rst show that in economies...
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A Note on the Determinants of AFDC Policies
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1980
The purpose of this Note is to provide a model of the determinants of geographic AFDC differentials. In particular, the model developed and tested below hypothesizes a basically political determination of AFDC levels, a political determination principally involving an alignment of two...
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An Extension of the Tiebout Hypothesis of Voting with One's Feet: The Medicaid Magnet Hypothesis
Cebula, Richard; Clark, Jeff - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study empirically extends the Tiebout hypothesis of "voting with one's feet" in two ways. First, it provides updated estimates using net migration data for the period 2000-2008. Second, in addition to investigating variables reflecting public education outlays, property taxation and income...
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On the historical and geographic origins of the Sicilian mafia
Buonanno, Paolo; Durante, Ruben; Prarolo, Giovanni; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This research attempts to explain the large differences in the early diffusion of the mafia across different areas of … cartel of protection providers: the mafia. This would especially be the case in those areas (prevalently concentrated in the … incidence of mafia across Sicilian municipalities and on the distribution of sulphur reserves, land suitability for the …
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