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Vote-buying and growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008
Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762209
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Vote-Buying and Growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008
Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753158
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Vote-Buying and Growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2008
Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005626707
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New forms of democracy
Gersbach, Hans - 2022
difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities … democracy. We survey a long period in the quest for such new forms and point to next inventions for such forms. We suggest to … experiment with new ways for democracy to extend the choice of democratic processes that can be implemented in real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465693
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Costs of change, political polarization, and re-election hurdles
Gersbach, Hans; Muller, Philippe; Tejada, Oriol - 2015 - This version: August 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409981
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Bridling the successor : optimal catenarian discipline
Gersbach, Hans; Gul, Faruk - 2024
Motivated by insufficient fiscal discipline in democracy, we introduce and examine “Catenarian Discipline Rules”. An …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014456455
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Electoral competition with costly policy changes : a dynamic perspective
Gersbach, Hans; Jackson, Matthew O.; Muller, Philippe; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229121
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Policy reforms and the amount of checks & balances
Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Wagner, Julia - 2022
model of political competition with costly policy reforms. The cost of a marginal reform is determined endogenously at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337980
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On pendular voting
Gersbach, Hans - 2025
"Pendular Voting" presents a novel two-stage voting procedure: A randomly chosen citizen group votes on a proposal replacing the status quo. Depending on the outcome, a "counterproposal" ensues, that is closer to/further away from the status quo than the original proposal. All citizens vote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015359046
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Policy reforms and the amount of checks & balances
Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Wagner, Julia - 2022
model of political competition with costly policy reforms. The cost of a marginal reform is determined endogenously at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013346919