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Do Institutions Affect Citizens' Selection into Politics?
Braendle, Thomas - 2013
Traditional political economy has paid primary attention to the structuring of the principal-agent relationship between citizens and politicians and the role of competition and institutions in disciplining political agents. However, as the electoral control of politicians and the credibility of...
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Compulsory Voting and Public Finance
Hodler, Roland - 2010
Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to … policies that are better for less privileged citizens, who often abstain when voting is voluntary. To scrutinize this … conventional wisdom, I study public goods provision and rents to special-interest groups in a probabilistic voting model with …
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What makes voters turn out: The effects of polls and beliefs
Agranov, Marina; Goeree, Jacob K.; Romero, Julian; … - 2012
insights. First, voting propensity increases systematically with subjects' predictions of their preferred alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316838
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Exit Polls and Voter Turnout
Andersen, Asger Lau; Jensen, Thomas - 2010
We set up a model of elections or referendums with two alternatives to study how voter turnout and election outcomes are affected by the publication of exit polls on election day. We find that the introduction of an exit poll influences the incentive to vote both before and after the poll is...
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Electoral Cycles: Do they really fit the Data?
Galeotti, A.; Salford, G. - 2001
This paper provides a theoretical model of pre-electoral budget cycle and tests its empirical implications. Whenelections approach, incumbent policy-makers have an incentive to signal their competency by acting on economicvariables. Rational voters incorporate the knowledge of such mechanisms in...
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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
, by coordinating voting behavior,these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325751
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Empirical Studies on Public Debt and Fiscal Transfers
Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016
. Chapter 3 examines whether the municipalities' voting behavior in state elections in a German state influenced the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698353
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On the Political Economy of Environmental Policy
Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Schneider, Friedrich - 2002
In the past there was hardly any use of economic instruments in environmental policy, mainly command and control measures were used. More recently, ecological taxes as well as tradable permits became more popular and voluntary agreements have been implemented. Using the Public Choice approach we...
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Why is fiscal policy often procyclical?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Guido - 2005
Many countries, especially developing ones, follow procyclical fiscal policies, namely spending goes up (taxes go down) in booms and spending goes down (taxes go up) in recessions. We provide an explanation for this suboptimal fiscal policy based upon political distortions and incentives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261343
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Redistribution or education?: the political economy of the social race
Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2007
people with high talent (and vice-versa). We find a political economy equilibrium of the voting game using probabilistic … voting. When the poor are more politically influent, the economy is characterized by a higher level of education, growth and …
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