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Storable Votes: Giving Voice to Minority Preferences without Sacrificing Efficiency
Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas; Riezman, Raymond - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 3, pp. 17-22
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056461
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The Choice of Institutions
Alesina, Alberto - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 3, pp. 3-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056411
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An Economic Theory of Constitutional Choice
Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 3, pp. 11-16
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056450
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Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Corruption
Yehoue, Etienne B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears as a rent-extracting technology in a democratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248127
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Colonial Origins, Institutions and Economic Performance in the Caribbean; Guyana and Barbados
DaCosta, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The countries that were once British colonies in the Caribbean share a common language and a colonial history of slavery, dominance of a plantation-based sugar industry, and broadly similar government and administrative traditions. Following independence in the late-1960s economic strategies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263739
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Electoral System and Public Spending
Perotti, Roberto; Rostagno, Massimo V.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
We study the effects of electoral institutions on the size and composition of public expenditure in OECD and Latin American countries. We present a model emphasizing the distinction between purchases of goods and services, which are easier to target geographically, and transfers, which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264182
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Hold Your Nose and Vote; Why Do Some Democracies tolerate Corruption?
Pani, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper analyses why corruption can persist for long periods in a democracy and inquires whether this can result from a well-informed rational choice of the citizens. By applying a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy, the paper analyzes how corruption distortsthe allocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999974
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Power sharing and electoral equilibrium
Saporiti, Alejandro - In: Economic Theory 55 (2014) 3, pp. 705-729
, and they share policy-making power afterward according with the votes gathered in the election. The paper uncovers the … motivations that ensures the existence of pure strategy equilibrium under a broad family of power sharing rules, ranging from … fully proportional to winner-take-all. The equilibrium analysis shows that power sharing and ideology exert a centrifugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010758623
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Discourse, power and governmentality: Social movement research with and beyond Foucault
Baumgarten, Britta; Ullrich, Peter - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012
(post-)Foucaultian thinking. We argue that Foucault and his very concepts of discourse and power provide a perspective on … argumentieren, dass Foucault, insbesondere seine Konzepte von Diskurs und Macht, eine Perspektive auf soziale Bewegungen und Protest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010982176
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Political Motivations and Electoral Competition: Equilibrium Analysis and Experimental Evidence
Drouvelis, Michalis; Saporiti, Alejandro; Vriend, Nicolaas J - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2011
-dimensional, majority rule election game with two candidates, who might be interested in power as well as in ideology, but not necessarily … differentiation, respectively. Our analysis shows how these equilibrium configurations depend on the relative interests in power (resp …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009292395