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Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - 2014
This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact...
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The Political Economy of Redistribution Policy
Bellani, Luna; Ursprung, Heinrich - 2016
We review the literature on the public choice approach to explaining redistribution policies. The focus is on policies … that are pursued with the sole reason to redistribute initial endowments. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to redistribution … in democracies. In democratic settings, generic redistribution games lack equilibria. Structure-inducing rules that give …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584888
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Does Progressivity Always Lead to Progress? The Impact of Local Redistribution on Tax Manipulation
Giommoni, Tommaso - 2019
The goal of this paper is to study the effects of introducing income redistribution at the municipal level, with the … decentralizing income redistribution as it may lead to consistent tax manipulation and large distortions in fiscal policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872066
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The Political Economy of Financial Systems: Evidence from Suffrage Reforms in the Last Two Centuries
Degryse, Hans; Lambert, Thomas; Schwienbacher, Armin - 2013
Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328724
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Priority Roads: The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018169
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Did Austerity Cause Brexit?
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018
Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...
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Migrants' Missing Votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
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Disastrous Discretion: Ambiguous Decision Situations Foster Political Favoritism
Schneider, Stephan A.; Kunze, Sven - 2022
Allocation decisions are vulnerable to political influence, but it is unclear in which situations politicians use their discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States, exploiting the spatiotemporal randomness of...
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The Politics of Public Service Reform: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron; Sandholtz, Wayne - 2023
This paper provides experimental evidence on the electoral effect of a large education reform in a developing democracy. Despite significantly improving school quality, the policy reduced the incumbent party's presidential vote share by 3 percentage points (10%). This does not imply that voters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377607
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Immigration and Electoral Support for the Far-Left and the Far-Right
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2018
Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in France, using panel data on presidential elections from...
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