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Institutional sources of policy bias: A computational investigation

Ragan, Robi - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 25 (2013) 4, pp. 467-491

Representative democracy translates the preferences of the electorate into policy outcomes. Individual voters do not directly vote on policy; rather, their elected representatives create and establish policy. How well do the institutions of representative democracy translate the preferences of...

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When is Size a Liability?

Brams, Steven J.; Fishburn, Peter C. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 7 (1995) 3, pp. 301-316

Riker's `size principle' predicts that only minimal winning coalitions (MWCs) will form in n-person zero-sum games that … manifestations of the inverse relationship between weight and bargaining power in parliamentary coalitions and international politics …

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Change in parliamentary party systems and policy outcomes: Hunting the core

Mershon, Carol; Shvetsova, Olga - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 26 (2014) 2, pp. 331-351

This paper shows that change in party systems within parliaments can lead to major change in policy outcomes. Specifically, we show that policy mobility of parties and fluidity in their parliamentary membership can generate or upset the existence of the policy core as well as determine its...

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Party Competition and Party System Change

Laver, Michael - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 1 (1989) 3, pp. 301-324

A proper understanding of party system change demands a dynamic theory of party competition. This should integrate accounts of competition in the legislative party system, in particular coalition formation, with accounts of competition in the electoral party system, in particular vote...

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Democracy, Economic Reform and Regional Cooperation

Solingen, Etel - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 8 (1996) 1, pp. 79-114

sufficient; (2) instead, the grand political-economic strategies of domestic ruling coalitions may provide a more powerful … predictor of regional outcomes. Coalitions strongly committed to economic liberalization are expected to be more likely to … undertake regional cooperative postures, particularly when facing similarly committed regional partners. Coalitions aggregating …

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The Paradox of Coalition Trading

Colomer, Josep M.; Martínez, Florencio - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 7 (1995) 1, pp. 41-63

its own self-interest, could accept sharing oversized majority coalitions in some parliaments with numerically superfluous …

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The Effect of Initiatives on Local Government Spending

Primo, David M. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 22 (2010) 1, pp. 6-25

Tools of direct democracy, such as the citizen initiative, are available at both the state and local levels in the United States, yet models of the process typically do not consider these institutions in tandem. In this article, I develop a model of local fiscal policy that incorporates the...

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Constitutions and Policy Comparisons

Hugh-Jones, David - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 21 (2009) 1, pp. 25-61

Voters in democracies can learn from the experience of neighbouring states: about policy in a direct democracy (`policy experimentation'), about the quality of their politicians in a representative democracy (`yardstick competition'). Learning between states creates spillovers from policy...

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Civic initiatives in the context of legal uncertainty

Gregor, Martin; Smith, Michael L. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 25 (2013) 1, pp. 36-62

In this article, we analyse initiatives organized by groups outside of formal politics that involve political confrontation with elected officials, and the need for recourse to the courts. We show that a civic initiative submitted by a proposer gives the voter not only the option to constrain...

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Is There Really a Turnout Paradox?

Medina, Luis Fernando - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 23 (2011) 3, pp. 382-399

This paper challenges the notion that voting games with purely instrumental players cannot account for high turnout (the ‘turnout paradox'). Although it has been known for over 25 years that such games can generate high-turnout equilibria, the said equilibria have been rejected on the grounds...

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