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On the Size of the Winning Set in the Presence of Interest Groups
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; van Winden, Frans - 2005
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325221
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On the size of the winning set in the presence of interest groups
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; van Winden, Frans - 2006
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261435
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Identification of Voters with Interest Groups improves the Electoral Chances of the Challenger
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; van Winden, Frans - 2009
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325751
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Identification of voters with interest groups improves the electoral chances of the challenger
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; van Winden, Frans - 2010
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270501
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Electoral control when policies are for sale
Farvaque, Etienne; Lagadec, Gaël - 2009
This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274511
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Contests with incumbency advantages: An experiment investigation of the effect of limits on spending behavior and outcome
Otsubo, Hironori - 2012
This paper experimentally investigates the effect of limits on campaign spending and outcome in an electoral contest where two candidates, an incumbent and a challenger, compete for office in terms of the amount of campaign expenditure. The candidates are asymmetric only in that the incumbent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291825
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Money and politics: The effects of campaign spending limits on political competition and incumbency advantage
Avis, Eric; do Amaral, Claudio A. Ferraz; Finan, … - 2017
This paper examines the effects of campaign spending limits on political competition and incumbency advantage. We study … discontinuous kink which we exploit for causal identification. We find that stricter limits increase political competition by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807895
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Politicians' Motivation, Political Culture, and Electoral Competition
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert - 2004
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325215
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The design of political institutions: electoral competition and the choice of ballot access restrictions in the United States
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
potential endogeneity of institutions by examining the link between the degree of electoral competition and the design of ballot … access restrictions in the United States. Exploiting exogenous variation in electoral competition at the state level induced … independent candidates have been systematically adjusted to changing degrees of electoral competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264443
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Electoral goals and center-state transfers: a theoretical model and empirical evidence from India
Arulampalam, Wiji; Dasgupta, Sugato; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2008
We construct a model of redistributive politics where the central government is opportunistic and uses its discretion to make transfers to state governments on the basis of political considerations. These considerations are the alignment between the incumbent parties at the central and state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268901