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Motivating Politicians : The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance
Ferraz, Claudio - 2010
Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently … politicians and perform competently in office becomes a central question. In this paper, we examine whether higher wages attract … better quality politicians and improve political performance using exogenous variation in the salaries of local legislators …
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Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
Polities differ in the extent to which political parties can pre-commit to carry out promised policy actions if they take power. Commitment problems may arise due to a divergence between the ex ante incentives facing national parties that seek to capture control of the legislature and the ex...
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Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters : A Theory of Large Elections
Faravelli, Marco - 2011
We propose a new game theoretic approach to modeling large elections that overcomes the "paradox of voting" in a costly voting framework, without reliance on the assumption of ad hoc preferences for voting. The key innovation that we propose is the adoption of a "smooth" policy rule under which...
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Mediocracy
Mattozzi, Andrea - 2007
political party may deliberately choose to recruit only mediocre politicians, in spite of the fact that it could afford to … recruit better individuals who would like to become politicians. We argue that this finding may contribute to explain the …
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An Experiment in Candidate Selection
Casey, Katherine - 2019
Are ordinary citizens or political party leaders better positioned to select candidates? While the American primary system lets citizens choose, most democracies rely instead on party officials to appoint or nominate candidates. The consequences of these distinct design choices are unclear:...
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Old and Young Politicians
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2015
Italian local governments. Our results suggest that younger politicians are more likely to behave strategically in response to …
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Women as Policy Makers : Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment
Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - 2022
This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions. In 1998, one third of all leadership positions of Village Councils in West Bengal were randomly selected to be reserved for a woman: in these councils only women could be...
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Provincial and Local Governments in China : Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior
Gordon, Roger H. - 2011
What are the incentives faced by local officials in China? Without democratic institutions, there is no mechanism for local residents to exercise "voice". Given the hukou registration system, local residents have little opportunity to threaten "exit" if they are unhappy with local taxes and...
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Foreign Firms and Local Communities
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
The literature on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on host-countries has been almost exclusively focused on issues of productivity, growth and wages. We argue that this leaves quite a bit of important unexplored areas of inquiry,...
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Urban Public Finance
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012
America's local governments spend about one-eighth of our national income, one-fourth of total government spending, and employ over 14 million people. This paper surveys the large and growing economics literature on local governments and their finances. A primary difference between local and...
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