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This paper explores how malapportionment affects the way Brazilian federal government allocates its resources to …
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This study investigates the relationship between electoral donations made by industrial entrepreneurs and the behavior of federal deputies elected for the 54th legislature (2011-2015), with regard to the presentation of legislative proposals favorable or contrary to the interests of that...
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This study investigates the performance of interest groups in standing committees from the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, in the 2011-2015 legislature. It is based on the premise that two activities are the main strategies of these groups to influence the legislative process: corporate campaign...
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proportional number of seats (the Hare-quota). We study the malapportionment of constituencies and provide a simple bound as a …
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In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
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be minimal winning, minority or surplus. Moreover, coalitions may be `disconnected'. We then look at how the coalition …
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In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in the parliament. We develop a general probabilistic model of political crises and test it...
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We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
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We analyze the relative importance of party ideology and rents from office in the formation of coalitions in a … parliamentary democracy. In equilibrium, the types of coalitions that are formed may be minimal winning, minority or surplus and … they may be ideologically `disconnected'. The coalitions that form depend upon the relative importance of rents of office …
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Experiments evaluate the fit of human behaviour to the Shapley-Shubik power index (SSPI), a formula of voter power. Groups of six subjects with differing votes divide a fixed purse by majority rule in online chat rooms. Earnings proxy for measured power. Chat rooms and processes for selecting...
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