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a noisy information signal concerning fraud. Monitoring an election is not always worth the cost and so democracy is not …I examine the provision of free and fair elections using a decision-theoretic model in which election observers provide … fair elections are a public good, municipal election fraud result from Tiebout provision of this local public good. I offer …
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Democracy is not necessarily consolidated simply by the introduction of formal democratic institutions. It is often … establish an independent election governing institution? Assuming that a ruler prefers to maintain her power, basically she has … such a case, a ruler has an incentive to establish an independent election commission to avoid unnecessary collisions by …
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The result of Indonesian legislative election 2004 is analyzed with certain comparative with the previous one (1999 …
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The result of Indonesian legislative election 2004 is analyzed with certain comparative with the previous one (1999 …
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A consensus exists that rising income levels and technological development are among the key drivers of total health spending. However, determinants of public sector health expenditure are less well understood. This study examines a complex relationship across government health expenditure...
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In a much cited 2008 article, Per Pettersson-Lidbom uses regression discontinuity to test for Swedish party effects on economic policies such as municipal taxation, spending and employment. We reassess the issue using the same estimator as Pettersson-Lidbom but new data on all factual...
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Nach einem kurzen Rückblick auf das Downs-Modell diskutieren wir anhand empirischer Daten aus Deutschland dessen heutige Relevanz unter Berücksichtigung der aus der Fairness-Literatur bekannten Ungleichheitsaversion (UA). Dabei wird der Begriff der sozialen Präferenzen um das neue Konzept der...
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The aim of this paper is to determine which country-specific characteristics promote and which impede the adoption of institutions. On the basis of a broad panel of 183 countries for the period between 1996 and 2010, we test whether there are tendencies towards a general improvement and towards...
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