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Mayors’ Reelection Choice and the Economy: Evidence from Portugal
Castro, Vítor; Martins, Rodrigo - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2011
reelection in the same way as they affect vote and popularity functions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838858
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Do constitutions matter? Evidence from a natural experiment at the municipality level
Ade, Florian - In: Public Choice 160 (2014) 3, pp. 367-389
This paper asks if it does matter for taxes and government spending whether the mayor is elected (and recalled) by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937296
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The lasting lack of direct universal suffrage for French metropolitan areas : a shackle that must be rapidly cancelled or a great asset that should be absolutely protected ? (In Fr...
THOMAS, Olivier - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2009
It is a long time since the problem of the lack of direct universal suffrage for the French metropolitan areas with own taxes (MAOT) has been pointed out. Nevertheless, nothing has ever been done to change this current situation, in spite of a wide agreement in favor of direct universal suffrage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474923
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Self-Serving Mayors and Local Government Consolidations in Japan
Kawaura, Akihiko - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2010
. The analysis with data from 3,212 Japanese municipalities reveals that a long-serving mayor would present an obstacle to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685111
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Municipality secession, voter’s preference and persistence of power
Arvate, Paulo; Ponczek, Vladimir - Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade … - 2008
elections. Our results imply that incumbents in the new municipalities have a higher chance of reelection which suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367791
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Fiscal policy and reelection in Brazilian municipalities
Sakurai, Sergio; Menezes-Filho, Naercio - In: Public Choice 137 (2008) 1, pp. 301-314
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005809360
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Reelection or term limits? The short and the long run view of economic policy
Streb, Jorge - In: Estudios de Economia 26, 2 Year 1999, pp. 187-206
An incumbent's drive for reelection can lead to political budget cycles. The distortion cycles cause in economic policy … individual candidates, constitutional clauses that prohibit the reelection of the president eliminate political budget cycles …. One-term limits that allow non-immediate reelection also shift the focus from short-run cycles to the long-run soundness …
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It's the occupation, stupid! Explaining candidates' success in low-information local elections
Mechtel, Mario - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
We analyze the effects of personal characteristics of 4239 political candidates on their performance in local elections in Germany. Our results show that a candidate's occupation plays a decisive role. Occupational effects can be explained by (a) an occupation's public reputation and (b) public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957281
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Voter Turnout and City Performance
Lo Prete, Anna; Revelli, Federico - 2014
We study the impact of exogenous variation in Italian municipal elections'voter turnout rates on city performance scores and elected mayors' indicators of valence. First, we build a simple model of voluntary and costly expressive voting, where the relative weight of ideology and valence issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959887
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The Use of Social Media as a Means of Political Communication: Comparision of AKP and CHP’s Facebook Comments in the Local Elections of 30 March 2014
K, Emine; Bozkurt, Hale - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
The developments in the field of internet and computers have paved the way for the formation of social media and a new media was born. Also, these developments created new platforms for communication. Rapid changes have occurred especially in the last decade. These changes have led social media...
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