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Political regime change, economic liberalization and growth accelerations
Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Haan, Jakob - In: Public Choice 146 (2011) 1, pp. 93-115
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Interest groups and economic performance: some new evidence
Horgos, Daniel; Zimmermann, Klaus - In: Public Choice 138 (2009) 3, pp. 301-315
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Terrorized economies
Crain, Nicole; Crain, W. - In: Public Choice 128 (2006) 1, pp. 317-349
In this paper we estimate the macroeconomic consequences of terrorism using panel data for 147 countries for the period 1968–2002. The results reveal that the potential gains to a country from reducing terrorism are quite large, although the specific estimates depend on a country's population,...
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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating Their Separate Roles in US Growth
Higgins, Matthew J.; Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - In: Public Choice 139 (2009) 3-4, pp. 493-507
We use US county level data from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. Increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively related to economic growth. We find no evidence...
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Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits—revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries
Krieger, Tim; Ruhose, Jens - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 1, pp. 115-143
have less income compared to their work income. This effect is transitory, however, implying a change in voting behavior …
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Taking dictatorship seriously: a reply to Quesada
Fried, Greg - In: Public Choice 158 (2014) 1, pp. 243-251
insight common to the standard characterisations of voting power: the idea that one has power over an outcome to the extent …
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Albert Heckscher on collective decision-making
Lagerspetz, Eerik - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 3, pp. 327-339
), accepted in 1892 at the University of Copenhagen, Heckscher dealt with numerous issues related to voting, especially those …-cycles, differences between Condorcet-effective rules and the Borda rule, strategic voting, the influence of the voting order under the … parliamentary voting rules, the likelihood of single-peaked preference profiles, and the problems created by non …
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Political interaction in the senate: estimating a political “spatial” weights matrix and an application to lobbying behavior
Chupp, B. - In: Public Choice 160 (2014) 3, pp. 521-538
Many motivations exist that cause legislators to behave strategically when voting. These include logrolling, towing the … effects simulation, I calculate the overall effect on voting from “flipping” a senator’s vote, allowing flipped votes to have …
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On the empirical relevance of Condorcet’s paradox
Deemen, Adrian - In: Public Choice 158 (2014) 3, pp. 311-330
Condorcet’s paradox occurs when there is no alternative that beats every other alternative by majority. The paradox may pose real problems to democratic decision making such as decision deadlocks and democratic paralysis. However, its relevance has been discussed again and again since the...
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Campaign contributions as valence
Lambie-Hanson, Timothy - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 1, pp. 3-24
. Candidates then use the donations to build valence through campaigning, which in turn affects the voting decision of …
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