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How Do Electoral Rules Shape Party Structures, Government Coalitions, and Economic Policies?
Persson, Torsten - 2003
We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy, where party structures, government coalitions and fiscal policies are endogenously determined. The model predicts that, relative to proportional elections, majoritarian elections reduce government spending because they reduce party...
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Bargaining with Altruism
Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Despite extensive use of bargaining models in economics and despite Becker's insistence on the importance of altruism in families, the theoretical literature on bargaining ignores altruism and assumes that everyone is an egoist. This paper shows that incorporating altruism into cooperative...
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Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda
Blattman, Christopher - 2019
We estimate the effects of one of the largest anti-vote-buying campaigns ever studied -- with half a million voters exposed across 1427 villages--in Uganda's 2016 elections. Working with civil society organizations, we designed the study to estimate how voters and candidates responded to their...
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Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics
Grossman, Gene M. - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467285
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Bargaining in Legislatures : An Empirical Investigation
Knight, Brian - 2004
While the theoretical literature on non-cooperative legislative bargaining has grown voluminous, there is little empirical work attempting to test a key prediction in this literature: proposal power is valuable. This paper aims to fill this gap in the literature by investigating the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468163
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Classical Right, New Right, and Voting Behavior : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Sanz, Carlos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
not run in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a relatively representative electoral constituency, in the general election of July 23 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576639
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Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems - Evidence from French Elections
Dano, Kevin; Ferlenga, Francesco; Galasso, Vincenzo; Le … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these … elections, we find that winning an election increases candidates' chances to win the next election by 25.1 percentage points … conclude that party coordination and voters rallying candidates who won or gained visibility in an election both contribute to …
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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
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Keep your Enemies Closer : Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections
Di Tella, Rafael; Kotti, Randy; Le Pennec-Çaldichoury, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
content of 9,000 primary and general election websites of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, 2002-2016, as well …
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Information Aggregation in Stratified Societies
Agranov, Marina; Eilat, Ran; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We analyze a model of political competition in which the elite forms endogenously to aggregate information and advise the uninformed median voter which candidate to choose. The median voter knows whether or not the endorsed candidate is biased toward the elites, but might still prefer the biased...
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