nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

We explore the effect of oil import price shocks on political outcomes using a worldwide dataset on elections of chief …

anonymous elections in democracies. …

I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections … (1.0 points) compared to regular elections (0.4 points). Future research needs to investigate why perceived corruption in …

difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities … democracy. We survey a long period in the quest for such new forms and point to next inventions for such forms. We suggest to … experiment with new ways for democracy to extend the choice of democratic processes that can be implemented in real …

dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on … elections, whereas in autocracies bribes increase after elections. These findings align with a theoretical framework in which … pressure groups use political violence to sway democratic elections in favor of their preferred candidates, while resorting to …

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …