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Pork barrel cycles
Drazen, Allan; Eslava, Marcela - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003321606
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Signalling, incumbency advantage, and optimal reelection thresholds
Caselli, Francesco; Cunningham, Thomas E.; Morelli, Massimo - 2012
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Bad government can be good politics : political reputation, negative campaigning, and strategic shirking
Fletcher, Deborah; Slutsky, Steven Myles - In: The B.E. journal of theoretical economics 10 (2010) 1, pp. 1-56
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Signalling, incumbency advantage, and optimal reelection rules
Caselli, Francesco; Cunningham, Tom; Morelli, Massimo; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009553624
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Smooth politicians and paternalistic voters : a theory of large elections
Faravelli, Marco; Walsh, Randall P. - 2011
"We propose a new game theoretic approach to modeling large elections that overcomes the "paradox of voting" in a costly voting framework, without reliance on the assumption of ad hoc preferences for voting. The key innovation that we propose is the adoption of a "smooth" policy rule under which...
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Mediocracy
Mattozzi, Andrea; Merlo, Antonio - In: Journal of public economics 130 (2015), pp. 32-44
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The right type of legislator : a theory of taxation and representation
Mattozzi, Andrea; Snowberg, Erik - 2015
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The right look : conservative politicians look better and voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
Since good-looking politicians win more votes, a beauty advantage for politicians on the left or on the right is bound … to have political consequences. We show that politicians on the right look more beautiful in Europe, the United States … candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and …
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Multi-offce incumbency advantage : political careers in Brazil
Magalhães, Leandro de; Hirvonen, Salomo - 2015
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Comment on : electoral contests, incumbency advantages, and campaign finance
Pastine, Ivan; Pastine, Tuvana - 2009
This paper completes Meirowitz (2008) by analyzing the effect of a cap on political campaign spending in an environment where voters have initial preferences over political candidates. The policy implications are starkly different from the previously analyzed case where voters are indifferent...
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