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Farvaque, Étienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - 2011

This paper aims to explain the rise and fall of communism by exploring the interplay between economic incentives and …, and back to restoring market incentives. The grand experiment of communism is thus characterized to have led to the … discovery of a trade-off between equality and efficiency at the scale of alternative economic systems. -- Capitalism ; Communism …

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Viewing tax policy through party-colored glasses : what German politicians believe

Heinemann, Friedrich; Janeba, Eckhard - 2008

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Partisanship, ideology, and representation in Latin America

Saiegh, Sebastián M. - 2014

This paper uses joint scaling methods and similar items from three large-scale surveys to place voters, parties and politicians from different Latin American countries on a common ideological space. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the findings reveal that the "median" voter in Latin America...

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Rethinking the political economy of decentralization : how elections and parties shape the provision of local public goods

Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A.; Hankla, Charles R.; … - 2012

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Politics under the weather : droughts, parties and electoral outcomes

Tigre, Paulo Bastos; Miller, Sebastián - 2013

The increased occurrence of extreme weather conditions leading to drought is a key development challenge. This paper studies how these extreme events interact with the political process at the local level using rich administrative data for drought declarations and mayoral elections in Brazil....

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The making of policy : institutionalized or not?

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...

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Political institutions and street protests in Latin America

Machado, Fabiana; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are weak, protests and other unconventional means of participation become more appealing. This relationship is explored...

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Vote buying or campaign promises? : electoral strategies when party credibility is limited

Hanusch, Marek; Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2016

What explains significant variation across countries in the use of vote buying instead of campaign promises to secure voter support? This paper explicitly models the tradeoff parties face between engaging in vote buying and making campaign promises, and explores the distributional consequences...

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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying

Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016

Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...

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Rethinking the political economy of decentralization : how elections and parties shape the provision of local public goods

Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A.; Hankla, Charles R.; … - 2016

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