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Election 2010 Special: What the parties say
Timms, Stephen; Hoban, Mark; Cable, Vince - Chartered Insurance Institute - 2010
Financial Secretary Stephen Timms considers Labour’s response to the financial crisis and looks forward to what his party is doing to secure the recovery.[...]
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Electoral Strategy and Economic Policy
Besley, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
making political equilibria cred-ible, how some of the key magnitudes suggested by the theory canbe measured and the …
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Elected versus Appointed Regulators
Besley, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
A key issue in political economy concerns the accountability structures put in place to select public officials. While the principle that legislators are to be elected is now a defining feature of modern democracies, there are some offices where a plurality of selection methods survive. A key...
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Bad politicians
Caselli, Francesco; Morelli, Massimo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
We present a simple theory of the quality (competence and honesty) of elected officials. Our theoryoffers three main …
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Individual Choice and Social Exclusion
Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
Why is social exclusion a problem? What about ‘voluntary’ social exclusion –when an individual chooses to exclude him or herself from the wider society?Brain Barry has addressed these questions in a recent CASE book, arguing thatsocial exclusion, voluntary or involuntary, offends against...
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Capturing Preferences Under Incomplete ScenariosUsing Elicited Choice Probabilities
Herriges, Joseph A.; Bhattacharjee, Subhra; Kling, … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
Manski [13] proposed an approach for dealing with a particular form respondentuncertainty in discrete choice settings, particularly relevant in survey based researchwhen the uncertainty stems from the incomplete description of the choice scenarios.Specically, he suggests eliciting choice...
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On Removing the Condorcet Influence from PairwiseElections Data
Chandra, Abhijit; Roy, Sunanda - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
Recent developments in voting theory show that Condorcet profiles embedded in electoratesare responsible for conflicts … represent complete ties between the candidates so far as election outcomesare concerned. Hence removing their influence from …
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Electoral Goals and Center-State Transfers : A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence from India
Arulampalam, Wiji; Dasgupta, Sugato; Dhillon, Amrita; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
state which is both aligned and swing in the last state election is estimated to receive 16% higher transfers than a state …
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Comparison of Mean-Variance Theory and Expected-Utility Theory through a Laboratory Experiment
Morone, Andrea - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung … - 2005
theory provides a natural way to establish“measurable utility”. In the early 50’s Markowitz introduced the Mean …-Variance theory that is the basisof modern portfolio selection theory. Even if both models were analyzed from virtually all …
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When to Coalesce: Early versus Late CoalitionAnnouncement in an Experimental Democracy
Goodin, Robert E.; Güth, Werner; Sausgruber, Rupert - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung …
announcement ofcoalitions.1While the dominant popular image may be one of parties meeting togetherafter the election to hammer out … a coalition agreement, pre-election coalitions of onesort or another are actually quite common. In almost half of the … government. A quarter of governments formed werebased wholly (and another quarter in part) on pre-election agreements.2To date …
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