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Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Corruption
Yehoue, Etienne B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears as a rent-extracting technology in a democratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248127
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Corruption, Competition, and Contracts; A Model of Vote Buying
Vardy, Felix J. J.; Morgan, John - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
In the presence of competing interest groups, this paper examines how the form of votebuying contracts affects policy outcomes. We study contracts contingent upon individual votes, policy outcomes, and/or vote shares. Voters either care about their individual votes, or about the policy outcome....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248248
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Money-Based Versus Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization; Is there Space for Political Opportunism?
Aisen, Ari - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
a consumption bust followed by a recovery, policymakers may consider the timing of elections when determining the … nominal anchor for stabilization. This paper finds strong evidence that the choice of nominal anchor depends on elections …, implying the existence of political opportunism. ERBS are, on average, launched before elections while MBS are set after them. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263919
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Hold Your Nose and Vote; Why Do Some Democracies tolerate Corruption?
Pani, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper analyses why corruption can persist for long periods in a democracy and inquires whether this can result from a well-informed rational choice of the citizens. By applying a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy, the paper analyzes how corruption distortsthe allocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999974
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How Can Voters Classify an Incumbent under Output Persistence
Caleiro, António - 2008
The literature on electoral cycles has developed in two distinct phases. The first one considered the existence of non-rational (naive) voters whereas the second one considered fully rational voters. In our perspective, an intermediate approach is more interesting, i.e. one that considers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295273
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Institutional change and legitimacy via Urban elections? People's awareness of elections and participation in Urban neighbourhoods (Shequ)
Heberer, Thomas - 2006
This paper analyses institutional reforms and political participation, most notably indirect and direct elections of … residential committees (RC), in China's urban neighbourhoods and communities (shequ). It shows that these elections at present are … about - RC elections in the daily lives of China's urban dwellers still are, they still have some influence on political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302301
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Decision making in politics and economics: 4. Bundestag elections 2009 and direct democracy
Tangian, Andranik S. - 2010
) for the last Bundestag (German parliamentary) elections 2009. It is shown that the Bundestag election winner 2009 - the … Bundestag elections 2009 shows that the voters are little consistent with their own political profiles, disregard party …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302623
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Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi-democracy: The case of Ghana, 1996-2004.
André, Pierre; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - 2011
The body of literature on purely democratic countries can sometimes fail to explain the behavior of government in semi-democratic African countries. Empirical and theoretical political economic papers and that public funds target ruling party supporters and swing districts. Our results, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305592
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Government weakness and electoral cycles in local public debt: evidence from Flemish municipalities
Geys, Benny - 2006
Empirical research on Political Business (and Budget) Cycles is more supportive for electoral cycles in policies than in macro-economic outcomes. But even pre-electoral policy cycles receive no unanimous confirmation. In the present paper, we give credence to recent arguments that this may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306989
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Is the 50-state strategy optimal?
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2008
In 2005, the Democratic National Committee adopted the 50-state strategy in lieu of the strategy of focusing solely on battleground states. The rationale given for this move is that campaign expenditures are durable outlays that impact both current and future campaigns. This paper investigates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307042