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Party Hacks and True Believers : The Effect of Party Affiliation on Political Preferences
Gould, Eric D. - 2017
This paper examines the effect of party affiliation on an individual's political views. To do this, we exploit the party realignment that occurred in the U.S. due to abortion becoming a more prominent and highly partisan issue over time. We show that abortion was not a highly partisan issue in...
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Favoritism by the governing elite
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023
In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We manually collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316811
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Favoritism by the governing elite
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023
In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014441315
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Consolidation of new democracy, mass attitudes, and clientelism
Brender, Adi; Drazen, Allan - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 304-309
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Politics in Poor Places? Clientelism and Elections in Democracies
Golden, Miriam A. - 2020
We review a decade of literature on clientelism, a central topic in the study of developing democracies. We define … clientelism as the discretionary distribution of public resources by politicians. We distinguish clientelism that occurs in the … pre-electoral period (electoral clientelism) from that which occurs between elections (welfare clientelism). We provide …
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Inherent Quality or Nepotism? : Performance Analysis of Political Dynasties in a Democracy
Tantri, Prasanna L. - 2017
While persistence of political dynasties in a democracy has received attention, the performance of dynasts remains …
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Democracy, Credibility and Clientelism
Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2006
clientelism in politics is a source of significant policy distortion. However, in the long run reliance on patrons may undermine …
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Characteristics of Politically Connected Firms in Indonesia
Harymawan, Iman - 2020
This study investigates the types and characteristics of firms with politically connected directors in the boards of the company. The study uses data from all firms listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange spanning from 2004 to 2006. This study employs univariate analyses to address the research...
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Crony Capitalism as An Electoral Outcome
Veselov, Dmitriy - 2019
high entry barriers on markets. We propose a theory that explains why in a democracy the majority of voters may prefer this …
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Identifying Politically Connected Firms : A Machine Learning Approach
Mazrekaj, Deni; Titl, Vítězslav; Schiltz, Fritz - 2021
This article introduces machine learning techniques to identify politically connected firms. By assembling information from publicly available sources and the Orbis company database, we constructed a novel firm population dataset from Czechia in which various forms of political connections can...
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