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"The mother of all political problems"? : on asylum seekers and elections
Tomberg, Lukas; Smith Stegen, Karen; Vance, Colin - 2020
effect of immigration on election outcomes, few have probed the effect of asylum seekers – those fleeing strife and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320601
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Incentives dominate selection : chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019
The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286323
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Are political and economic integration intertwined?
Bratsberg, Bernt; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2019
Economic incentives play a key role in the decision to run for office, but little is known on how they shape immigrants' selection into candidacy. We study this question using a two-period Roy model and show that if returns to labour market experience are higher for migrants than natives,...
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? : the economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World
Möller, Marie - 2011
While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions. Based on a general cause-and-effect mechanism, the author analyzes whether such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009382370
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Political selection and the concentration of political power
Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2015
concentration of power in the hands of the election winner is optimal if and only if the conflict of interest is small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430775
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A case for standard theory?
Kuzmics, Christoph; Rodenburger, Daniel - 2015
Using data from an experiment by Forsythe, Myerson, Rietz, and Weber (1993), designed for a different purpose, we test the "standard theory" that players have preferences only over their own mentary payoffs and that play will be in (evolutionary stable) equilibrium. In the experiment each...
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Voter confirmation bias and electoral accountability
Lockwood, Ben - 2015 - First version: 8 February 2015, This version: 7 June 2015
political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician's actions are observable before the election … probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole's "feedback" case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic … evolution of confirmation bias can lead to more pandering before the first election. Finally, we show that when confirmation …
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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?
Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015
This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289331
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Serving the public interest
Markussen, Thomas; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2010
candidates by observing their pre-election behavior. Egoistic types may strategically imitate benevolent types in the pre-election … the public sector is effective. We analyze the role of institutions like investigative media and re-election and show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344857
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How elections matter : theory and evidence from environmental policy
List, John A.; Sturm, Daniel - 2006
This paper explores to what extent secondary policy issues are infuenced by electoral incentives. We develop a two dimensional political agency model in which a politician decides on both a frontline policy issue and a secondary policy issue. The model predicts when the incumbent should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439364