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Political theory and public opinion : against democratic restraint
Baderin, Alice - In: Politics, philosophy & economics : ppe 15 (2016) 3, pp. 209-233
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Eine ökonomische Analyse der Mediendemokratie : der Rational-Choice-Ansatz und die Stimmenmaximierung
Dylla, Daria W. - 2008 - 1. Aufl.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003543264
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Intra-Party Politics and Public Opinion : How Candidate Selection Processes Affect Citizens' Views on Democracy
Put, Gert-Jan - 2014
greater political participation and interest in politics, stronger sense of satisfaction with and support for democracy, and … higher levels of confidence/trust with democracy. Yet, to date no systematic comparative analysis was conducted to test the … hypothesized effects of democratizing selection procedures on citizens' views on democracy. In this paper we use a cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049336
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Polarization and pandering in common-interest elections
McMurray, Joseph - In: Games and economic behavior 133 (2022), pp. 150-161
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When do privatizations have popular support? : a voting model
Lahmandi-Ayed, Rim; Laussel, Didier - In: Journal of mathematical economics 100 (2022), pp. 1-14
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Majority vote on educational standards : conference paper
Schwager, Robert - 2013 - First draft
The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...
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Concessions and repression in conflict
Ishihara, Akifumi; Prakarsh Singh - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 16 (2016) 2, pp. 865-899
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Indonesian politics in 2014 : democracy’s close call
Aspinall, Edward; Mietzner, Marcus - In: Bulletin of Indonesian economic studies 50 (2014) 3, pp. 347-369
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Reelection threshold contracts in politics
Gersbach, Hans - 2001
When politicians are provided with insufficient incentives by the democratic election mechanism, we show that social welfare can be improved by threshold contracts. A threshold incentive contract stipulates a performance level which a politican must reach in order to have the right to stand for...
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Costs of change, political polarization, and re-election hurdles
Gersbach, Hans; Muller, Philippe; Tejada, Oriol - 2015 - This version: August 2015
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