This paper develops a new approach to studying how electoral bias in favor of one party due to the pattern of districting affects policy choice. We tie a commonly used measure of bias to the theory of party compe- tition and show how this affects policy choice. The usefulness of the approach is...

This paper develops an approach to studying how bias in favor of one party due to the pattern of electoral districting affects policy choice. We tie a commonly used measure of electoral bias to the theory of party competition and show how this affects party strategy in theory. The usefulness of...

New institutionalism has repeatedly shown that education has become a common institution in current world society, but so far parties have not been the subject of inquiry. This is surprising, given the fact that institutionalization processes relevant to politics should be well observable in...

This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any...

In this paper, a new approach to disclose the impact of politics on economic growth is presented: we use data derived from content analysis of party manifestos as measures of party preferences. In a panel of 23 OECD countries, we detect a positive impact of party support for various...

Seit Mitte der siebziger Jahre wird in den westlichen Industrieländern die Frage nach den Ursachen anhaltender Arbeitslosigkeit und Wachstumsschwäche gestellt. Im Rahmen dieser Diskussion wird auch die These vertreten, daß es sich bei dem wirtschaftlichen Niedergang in vielen Ländern um die...

Bei der Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament am 25. Mai 2014 treten die Parteien zum ersten Mal mit Spitzenkandidaten an, die - vorausgesetzt ihre Parteien erhalten eine Mehrheit vom Europäischen Rat - als Kommissionspräsidenten vorgeschlagen werden sollen. Diese Neuerung, die auf den...

Am 22. September ist Bundestagswahl. Im Vergleich zum letzten Bundestagswahlkampf 2009 spielt die internationale Klimapolitik nur noch eine Nebenrolle. Die klimapolitischen Themen des Wahlkampfes werden vielmehr überdeckt von der Energiewende, die in Deutschland eingeleitet wurde. Der Beitrag...

Despite a growing interest in African political parties, no comparative analyses of political ideology in Africa have been undertaken to date. This study addresses this shortcoming by applying the Manifesto Research Group's (MRG) coding scheme to a complete set of African party manifestos in...

A robust feature of models of electoral competition between two opportunistic, purely office-motivated parties is that both parties become indistinguishable in equilibrium. I this short note, I show that this strong connection between the office motivation of parties and their equilibrium choice...