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Aytimur, R. Emre; Bruns, Christian - 2015

We show that a large electorate of ignorant voters can succeed in establishing high levels of electoral accountability. In our model an incumbent politician is confronted with a large number of voters who receive very noisy signals about her performance. We find that the accountability problem...

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Is economic development affected by the leaders' education levels? : evidence from India

Jain, Chandan; Kashyap, Shagun; Lahoti, Rahul; Sahoo, Soham - 2022

Although formal education is often considered an indicator of political leaders' quality, the evidence on the effectiveness of educated leaders is mixed. Besides, minimum education qualifications are increasingly being used as requirements for contesting elections, making it critical to...

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Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2013

In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for … threshold. The dataset covers all 426 Hessian municipalities over the period 1989-2011. Our results suggest that the seat and …

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Inequality and voting in fragile countries : evidence from Mozambique

Bove, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; … - 2024

economic inequality affects voting and other forms of political participation. This evidence is largely driven by advanced …. In line with prior theoretical expectations, we find a negative association between inequality and voting for the …

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United We Vote

Eguia, Jon X. - 2006

This paper studies the advantages that a coalition of agents obtains by forming a voting bloc to pool their votes and … the voting bloc, both if the agent is a member of the bloc and if the agent is not part of the bloc. We also determine … whether individual agents prefer to participate in or step out of the bloc, and we find the different optimal internal voting …

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When Inertia Generates Political Cycles

Soubeyran, Raphäel - 2006

We propose a simple infinite horizon of repeated elections with two candidates. Furthermore we suppose that the government policy presents some degree of inertia, i.e. a new government cannot completely change the policy implemented by the incumbent. When the policy inertia is strong enough, no...

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Valence Advantages and Public Goods Consumption: Does a Disadvantaged Candidate Choose an Extremist Position?

Soubeyran, Raphaël - 2006

Does a disadvantaged candidate always choose an extremist program? When does a less competent candidate have an incentive to move to extreme positions in order to differentiate himself from the more competent candidate? If the answer to these questions were positive, as suggested in recent work...

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The citizen-candidate model with imperfect policy control

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2015

, remains strictly above a threshold. Moreover, there may be one-candidate equilibria in which the only candidate is not the one …

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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015

experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral threshold (the so called "five percent hurdle") for local elections in … where the electoral competitiveness of smaller parties improved more because of the abolishment of the explicit threshold …

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Clientelism and governance

Bardhan, Pranab K. - 2021

Unlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly the author's general reflections on the broad issues of governance (or mis-governance including corruption), democracy, and state capacity that clientelism has an impact on. It then analyses how its...

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