examine policies without elections, say because of a concern about the public interest, may shy away from policy examination … with elections. Copyright Springer Science + business Media B.V. 2006 …

facing two-stage elections beginning with a primary, and we compare candidates’ policy strategies in situations where primary … primary elections to select their candidates—a common dilemma for Latin American (and some European) parties. Copyright …

We present detailed empirical evidence from Greece that around elections, misgovernance results in significant … intensify around elections: (i) attention and effort of elected officials is directed to campaigning instead of governing; and …

We introduce political economics into the soft budget constraint problem by asking if the timing of elections has the … worse—with synchronized elections, i.e. simultaneous central and regional office terms, or with staggered elections, i ….e. terms of office that do not coincide. We find that staggered elections clearly improve fiscal discipline at the local level …

candidates while the latter ratifies them. Using an original multiple discrete choice model to analyze a dataset of 180 elections …

European countries in their levels of satisfaction with the way democracy works. Compared to East European countries … factors were important for determining whether people were satisfied with the way democracy worked in their countries. While …