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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
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USA nach der Wahl – welche Folgen sind für Europa zu erwarten?
Enderlein, Henrik; Junker, Detlef; Mildner, Stormy; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 23, pp. 03-15
Henrik Enderlein, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, befürchtet, dass die Erwartungen, die mit der Wahl Barack Obamas … ökonomische Herausforderung, so dass die Wirtschaftspolitik zum fast alleinigen Leitmotiv der ersten Jahre werden müsse und er … multilateralen Moment in der amerikanischen Wirtschaftspolitik« erwarten. Auch Detlef Junker, Center for American Studies …
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The Choice of Institutions
Alesina, Alberto - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 3, pp. 3-10
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An Economic Theory of Constitutional Choice
Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 3, pp. 11-16
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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...
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Votingon the "Optimal" Size of Government
Olters, Jan-Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
Viewing fiscal policies as the outcome of democratically resolved conflicts of households over public goods and taxes, the “economic model of politics” proposes a public choice approach, which does not rely on social welfare functions. With it, a country’s overall budget can be derived...
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Voting behavior in Indonesia from 1999 to 2014 : religious cleavage or economic performance?
Higashikata, Takayuki; Kawamura, Koichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
In this study, we examine the voting behavior in Indonesian parliamentary elections from 1999 to 2014. After summarizing the changes in Indonesian parties' share of the vote from a historical standpoint, we investigate the voting behavior with simple regression models to analyze the effect of...
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Why Do Some Countries Spend More for Health? An Assessment of Sociopolitical Determinants and International Aid for Government Health Expenditures
Liang, Li-Lin; Mirelman, Andrew J - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
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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Modeling Politics with Economics tools; A Critical Survey of the Literature
Olters, Jan-Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
Whereas the economics discipline possesses a highly refined theoretical apparatus to analyze the effects of government behaviour on the economy, it has not (yet) managed to fully develop a positively formulated "economic theory of politics" that would permit the integration of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605269
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Lessons of Defeat and Success: Taiwan’s 2012 Elections in Comparative Perspective
Chen, Charles - In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell 43 (2014) 3, pp. 13-43
In early 2011, the Kuomintang (KMT, Guomindang) government appeared to be in danger of losing power in the upcoming presidential elections. The DPP had recovered sufficiently from its disastrous electoral performance in 2008 to pose a real challenge to Ma Ying-jeou (Ma Yingjiu) and had matched...
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