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Brams, Steven; Potthoff, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

We distinguish between (i) voting systems in which voters can rank candidates and (ii) those in which they can grade candidates, such as approval voting, in which voters can give two grades—approve (1) or not approve (0)—to candidates. While two grades rule out a discrepancy between the...

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Political Economy of The Budgetary Process in Malaysia

Hassan, Gulam; Aslam, Mohamed; Tan, Yee Shin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The ruling political party or the ruling government has rights in drafting and implementing economic policies including the budget policy. In the case of Malaysia, as observed, the budget policy is associated with the long or medium term economic development plans that are drafted, current...

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What do the Voters Reward: Personality, Party or Performance?

Gupta, Poonam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

important in explaining the results of the 2009 parliamentary elections in India. Our results show that the voters prefer the …

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BRICs versus Other Emerging Economies: The Case of India

Koumparoulis, Dimitrios Nikolaou - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In late April 2013, Jim O’Neill retired as chairman of Goldman Sachs (GS). The 56-year-old British economist, among other accomplishments, left his mark on the still unfolding globalization story by coining the acronym BRIC, referring to the four rapidly developing nations—Brazil, Russia,...

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How Do Indian Voters Respond to Candidates with Criminal Charges : Evidence from the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections

Dutta, Bhaskar; Gupta, Poonam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Sabha elections in India, and find support for all the implications of the model. Our empirical results show that voters do …

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Characterization of multidimensional spatial models of elections with a valence dimension

Azrieli, Yaron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Spatial models of political competition are typically based on two assumptions. One is that all the voters identically perceive the platforms of the candidates and agree about their score on a "valence" dimension. The second is that each voter's preferences over policies are decreasing in the...

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The Canada economic action plan as electoral tool

Chandler, Vincent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper models the distribution of pork barrel when the electoral benefit of pork does not accrue to the party in power but to the incumbent of the district where the pork was directed. The model shows that, under certain parametres, more pork goes to core support districts. To verify this...

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Turkish voter response to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

officials who permitted them. How voters responded to these in the 2002 parliamentary elections is investigated, using cross …

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Inequality, Uncertainty, and Redistribution

Machado, Fabiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

be relatively young, with many new parties and candidates in the political scene. This means elections occur under a high … of elections as a game of incomplete information to explore how uncertainty, candidates’ motivation (policy vs. office …

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Growth and election outcomes in a developing country

Gupta, Poonam; Panagariya, Arvind - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

developed and developing countries, the hypothesis that rapid growth helps incumbents win elections has been tested exclusively … statistically robust effect of growth on the prospects of the candidates of the state incumbent parties to win elections …. Specifically, we use the data on 422 candidates in the 2009 parliamentary elections and show that the candidates of incumbent …

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