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Plurality rule, proportional representation, and the German Bundestag : how incentives to pork-barrel differ across electoral systems

Stratmann, Thomas; Baur, Martin - 2002

This paper examines the importance of electoral rules for legislators behavior. The German electoral system includes a mechanism which assigns whether legislators are elected under the first-past-the-post (FPTP), or the proportional representation (PR) electoral rule. Using this institution, we...

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Enlargements and the principles of designing EU : decision-making procedures

Widgrén, Mika - 2003

classical power indices. The main emphasis in the assessment is in stability, efficiency and fairness. The paper concludes that …

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Knowledge is power : a theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011

in line with our theory. -- redistribution ; welfare spending ; information ; income ; voting ; political economics …

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Income inequality and political polarization

Marz, Waldemar - 2024

Value issues such as climate policy, immigration, or identity politics are among the most polarizing policy issues in the U.S. and other high-income countries. That polarization has been rising over the last decades. I investigate a novel channel of income inequality and political campaign...

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Bargaining and distribution of power in the EU's Conciliation Committee

Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - 2003

bargaining theory to predict inter-institutional agreements in the Conciliation Committee, it turns out that although …

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The efficacy and efforts of interest groups in post elections policy formation

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012

given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies … hinges on the dominance of its ideologically closer party and, in general, the coalition/opposition blocks of parties under … un-enforced party or coalition/opposition discipline. Such dominance is defined in terms of ideological inclination …

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Competition of politicians for incentive contracts and elections

Gersbach, Hans - 2001

When politicians have lower discount factors than voters, democratic elections cannot sufficiently motivate politicians to undertake long-term socially beneficial projects. When politicians can offer incentive contracts which become effective upon reelection, the hierarchy of contracts and...

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The power of religious organizations in human decision processes : analyzing voting behavior

Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2013

In Switzerland, two key church institutions - the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations ́power to shape...

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The political economy of regulatory risk

Strausz, Roland - 2010

This paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always exist. Agreements that fully eliminate it exist when...

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Political competition and the limits of political compromise

Cunha, Alexandre B.; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2014

We consider an economy where competing political parties alternate in office. Due to rent-seeking motives, incumbents have an incentive to set public expenditures above the socially optimum level. Parties cannot commit to future policies, but they can forge a political compromise where each...

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