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Recent studies have claimed that states with initiatives systems of legislation use this more direct from of democracy to improve productive resource allocation. This paper compares the economic performance of states with initiatives to states that do not have initiatives. We first construct a...
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elections on local economic growth in Indonesia by using a quasi-experimental research method. The first direct elections of … district leaders in Indonesia were performed in a staggered manner, and decided such that the year of election is exogenous …. Thus, growth in districts that have had their first elections of district heads can be compared with growth in districts …
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In dieser Dissertation wird die Wechselwirkung zwischen der Wirtschaft und den Wahlen, Politikern und Politik untersucht. Um die Wähler über die Folgen ihrer Wahlentscheidung zu informieren, ist das Verständnis der Dreiecksbeziehung zwischen der Wirtschaft, den politischen Akteuren und den...
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Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the …
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This paper investigates the implications of how states with initiative systems of legislation can use this more direct form of democracy to improve productive resource alloction by their governments. We construct a simple growth model whereby we can identify this channel through which...
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