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Financial power and financial repression in the economic rise of China and Japan

Heep, Sandra - 2013

Against the backdrop of China’s increasingly influential role in the international financial architecture, this thesis seeks to characterize and evaluate China’s financial power potential. It does so by analyzing the relationship between domestic financial repression and international...

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Do Elections lead to Informed Public Decisions?

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2003

and implement public policies, we show that examination takes place in spite of, rather than thanks to, elections …. Elections are needed as a carrot and a stick to motivate politicians, yet politicians who are overly interested in re …

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Vote-Share Contracts and Learning-by-Doing

Müller, Markus - 2009

We examine the interaction between vote-share contracts and learning-by-doing. Candidates for a political office are allowed to offer vote-share thresholds. The elected politician has to achieve at least this threshold value in his reelection result to remain in office for a second term. We...

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Tax Contracts and Elections

Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2009

In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We …

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A Reform Dilemma in Polarized Democracies

Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol - 2016

We study the feasibility and efficiency of policy reforms in polarized democracies. We develop a simple election model where (i) reforms are costly for voters and politicians and these costs increase with the extent of policy change, and (ii) politicians differ in their ability to carry out...

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An agenda-setting model of electoral competition

Colomer, Josep M.; Llavador, Humberto - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 73-93

government and a challenger party in opposition compete in elections by choosing the issues that will key out their campaigns …

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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010

Australia, Finland, France, and the United States. This appearance gap gives candidates on the right an advantage in elections … 6% in the 2000-2006 U.S. Senate elections because they fielded candidates who looked more competent. These shifts are … Republicans also won nine of the 15 gubernatorial elections where looks were decisive. Using Finnish data, we also show that …

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