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Competition between specialized candidates

Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2009

We develop a formal model in which the government provides public goods in different policy fields for its citizens. We start from the basic premise that two office-motivated candidates have differential capabilities in different policy fields, and compete by proposing how to allocate government...

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Paying politicians

Messner, Matthias; Polborn, Mattias - In: Journal of public economics 88 (2004) 12, pp. 2423-2445

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Paying politicians

Messner, Matthias (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Paying Politicians

Messner, Matthias; Polborn, Mattias - 2003

We consider a society that has to elect an official who provides a public service for the citizens. Potential candidates differ in their competence and every potential candidate has private information about his opportunity cost to perform the task of the elected official. We develop a new...

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Democracy, state capacity and public finance

Easaw, Joshy Z.; Leppälä, Samuli - In: Economic inquiry 61 (2023) 2, pp. 301-321

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The Role of Political Ideology as a Non-Institutional Device to Enforce Contributions in a Threshold Public Goods Game

Mateu, Guillermo; Hafkamp Ibanez, Lisette - 2023

In this study, we experimentally analyze public goods games with an interior provision point. The role of ideology is … experiment, participants’ ideology was no salient, in the second experiment the ideology of participants was salient among the … group members. We ex ante manipulated the composition of the groups attending to their reported ideology to check the …

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Choosing a public-spirited leader : an experimental investigation of political selection

Markussen, Thomas; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 144 (2017), pp. 204-218

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Incentive pay for policy-makers?

Britz, Volker; Ebrahimi, Afsoon; Gersbach, Hans - 2018 - This version: December 2018

We study how to efficiently motivate policy-makers to solve political multitask problems. Political multi-task problems typically have outcomes that are difficult to measure. Moreover, there are conflicts among citizens about optimal policies and the agents have the power to tax the citizens to...

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Chapter 34 The Making of Cultural Policy: A European Perspective

van der Ploeg, Frederick - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 1183-1221). 2006

No good comparable data on sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Still, local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After briefly describing special features...

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Point at, Nudge, or Push Private Provisions to a Public Good? Field Experimental Evidence for Experts, Politicians, and Nobodies

Bruns, Hendrik - 2019

This paper investigates differences between a default, a recommendation, and a mandatory minimum contribution on private provision of a large scale public good. Their interaction with regulator identity and intrinsic motivation on voluntary contributions is the primary focus. Data are from an...

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