Political campaign spending ceilings are purported to limit the incumbent's ability to exploit his fundraising advantage. If the challenger does not have superior campaign effectiveness, in contrast to conventional wisdom, we show that the incumbent always benefits from a limit as long as he has...

Party politics in Ireland has been characterised as politics without a social base. This paper calculates political concentration indices for party support in Ireland showing how support for a particular party is concentrated according to identifiable dimensions such as income, education and...

The author focuses on Communist Party-management relations in large and medium-scale Chinese industries since the early 1980s. Analysing these relations in the context of current economic and political reforms, he explores the major problems, the policies that have been pursued to resolve them,...