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As part of Maryland Carey Law School's annual Constitution Day program, on the topic of “Election 2016 and the … historically tended toward a fairly stable right-left ideological divide embedding a two-party system, and how this election … caucus stage, and in the general election, the challenges to the mainstream candidates were not dominantly based on …
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We present a modified citizen-candidate model where the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the two-candidate equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: however small the cost of candidacy, the...
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the cost of running as a candidate is arbitrarily small. -- elections ; polarization ; strategic delegation ; bureaucracy …
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During the last decade unicameral proposals have been put forward in fourteen US states. In this paper we propose a theoretical framework casting some lights on the drawbacks of bicameral state legislatures and on the effects of the proposed constitutional reforms. In a setting where lawmakers...
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