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Reputation shocks and strategic responses in electoral campaigns
Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021
Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to … the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both … incumbent and challenger increase their campaign spending when detrimental information affects the incumbent's reputation …
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Curbing Power or Progress? Governing with an Opposition Veto
Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2004
Veto institutions are often dominated by government opponents with rival electoral and policy interests (e.g. \divided government"). I investigate the tradeoff between policy control and policy blockade when both the government and the veto party may cater to opposing special interests. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263107
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Existence and computation of pure-strategy equilibria in models of legislative bargaining with reconsideration
Diermeier, Daniel (contributor); Fong, Pohan (contributor) - 2008
Diermeier and Fong (2008a) recently proposed a legislative bargaining model with reconsideration in the context of a distributive policy environment. In this paper we prove general existence and necessary conditions for pure-strategy stationary equilibria for any finite policy space and...
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Strategic asylum law making in Europe : institutional locus
Monheim, Jenny - 2007
Given the background of changing institutional competencies in the European Union, we analyze the choice of asylum law standards of national and European parliaments, the Council of the European Union and codecision between the Council and the European Parliament. In a two country model we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875223
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Politicians' motivation, political culture, and electoral competition
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2005
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians may have stronger incentives to behave...
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To fight or not to fight? : an analysis of submission, struggle, and the design of contests
Körber, Achim; Kolmar, Martin - 1996
This paper considers the players' behaviour in an asymmetric two-player contest. When do they decide to "struggle" and when to "subjugate"? Analysing contest-success functions it is found that two crucial prerequisites for "struggle" or "war" have to be met. Thus, such an equilibrium is possible...
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Direct and structural discrimination in contests
Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2013
This paper evaluates direct and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the contestants ́prize...
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A carrot and stick approach to agenda-setting
Dahm, Matthias; Glazer, Amihai - 2013
This paper models a legislature in which the same agenda setter serves for two periods, showing how he can exploit a legislature (completely) in the first period by promising future benefits to legislators who support him. In equilibrium, a large majority of legislators vote for the first-period...
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The influence of political pressure groups on the stability of international environmental agreements
Hagen, Achim; Altamirano Cabrera, Juan Carlos; Weikard, … - 2016
This paper examines the effects of political pressure groups (lobbies) on the emissions abatement decisions of countries and on the stability of international environmental agreements. We consider two types of lobbies, industry and environmentalists. We determine the influence of lobby-groups on...
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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015
experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral threshold (the so called "five percent hurdle") for local elections in … elections, but local politicians from large mainstream parties had the ability to adjust municipal political institutions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505165