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The puzzling practice of paying "cash for votes"
Murugesan, Anand; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2023
The expression "cash-for-votes" describes a form of vote buying in which candidates for office pay individuals in exchange for their votes. That practice undermines the functioning of democracy but is pervasive in many parts of the world, especially in the Global South. We discuss estimates of...
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Voting for direct democracy : evidence from a unique popular initiative in Bavaria
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny; Pallauf, Magdalena; … - 2014
We analyze a constitutional change in the German State of Bavaria where citizens, not politicians, granted themselves more say in politics at the local level through a constitutional initiative at the state level. This institutional setting allows us to focus on revealed preferences for direct...
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Political business cycle and fiscal discipline in Sub-Saharan Africa
Obakemi, Funsho; Adebowale, Hammed Adesola; Yusuf, … - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 10 (2021) 2, pp. 185-205
results of the system GMM revealed that the fiscal deficit is significantly large in election years and the deficit spending … spills into the year after the election, though not as high as in the election year. We could not, however, find a … significant effect in the pre-election year. In addition, we found evidence suggesting that though democracy significantly lowers …
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Statistical test for the mathematical theory of democracy
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2012
In economics and other social sciences, complex processes are often represented by numerical models of reality which more or less well reflect behavioral relationships and interactions. Such attempts are the subject of a lecture course "Mathematical Theory of Democracy" by the author at the...
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The rise of the "no party" in England
Aidt, Toke; Rauh, Christopher - 2019
observed decline in election turnout in England over the period. A detailed investigation of the dynamics of party …
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Social polarization and partisan voting in representative democracies
Duell, Dominik; Valasek, Justin - 2018
While scholars and pundits alike have expressed concern regarding increasing social polarization based on partisan identity, there has been little analysis of how social polarization impacts voting. In this paper, we incorporate social identity into a principal-agent model of political...
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Affective partisan polarization and citizens' attitudes and behavior in Swiss democracy
Jansen, Benjamin; Stutzer, Alois - 2024
There is a concern that citizens with different political positions and party affiliations increasingly dislike each other. We examine this affective polarization (AP), which is often associated with a weakening of democracy, in the context of Switzerland's multiparty landscape with proportional...
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Vetting for virtue : democracy’s challenge in excluding criminals from office
Arntzen, Sigurd S.; Fiva, Jon H.; Sørensen, Rune Jorgen - 2024
analyze local election candidates from 2003 to 2019, paired with administrative records of criminal offenses. We demonstrate …
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Changing perspectives of politics marketing in Nigeria
Aghara, Vincent; Nwaizugbo, Ireneus; Chukwuemeka, Emmanuel - In: Review of business & finance studies : RBFS 6 (2015) 2, pp. 105-115
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Political reactions to the euro crisis : cross-national variations and rescaling issues in elections and popular protests
Gent, W. P. C. van; Mamadouh, V. D.; Wusten, Herman van der - In: Eurasian geography and economics 54 (2013) 2, pp. 135-161
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