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Disastrous discretion : ambiguous decision situations foster political favoritism
Schneider, Stephan A.; Kunze, Sven - 2022
Allocation decisions are vulnerable to political influence, but it is unclear in which situations politicians use their discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States, exploiting the spatiotemporal randomness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177149
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Disastrous discretion : ambiguous decision situations foster political favoritism
Schneider, Stephan A.; Kunze, Sven - 2021
Allocation decisions are vulnerable to political influence, but it is unclear in which situations politicians use their discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States, exploiting the spatiotemporal randomness of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431606
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The causal impact of the electoral system on corruption
François, Abel; Lagios, Nicolas; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2024
We estimate the causal effect of the electoral system on corruption by leveraging a specificity of the French electoral … system. Exploiting that discontinuity in a regression discontinuity design and using survey and actual corruption data, we … find that the proportional list system results in higher levels of perceived and actual corruption than the individual …
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Austrian Contributions to the Literature on Natural and Unnatural Disasters
Storr, Virgil Henry - 2016
Austrian insights on the limits of central planning, the pervasiveness of knowledge problems, and the importance of the entrepreneur in coordinating social change have yielded substantive contributions to the literature on how individuals and communities respond to both natural and unnatural, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999045
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Retrospection, Fairness, and Economic Shocks : How Do Voters Judge Policy Responses to Natural Disasters?
Bechtel, Michael M. - 2020
Which factors explain voters' evaluations of policy responses to economic shocks? We explore this question in the context of mass preferences over the distribution of disaster relief and evaluate three theoretical arguments related to fairness norms that highlight affectedness, need, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854456
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Optimal Depot Locations for Humanitarian Logistics Service Providers Using Robust Optimization
Stienen, Valentijn; Wagenaar, Joris; den Hertog, Dick; … - 2020
When a disaster strikes an area, often international assistance is requested to help responding to and recovering from the disaster. The response is often characterized by the dispatch of relief items to the affected regions via depots from Humanitarian Logistics Service Providers (HLSPs). One...
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Essays in political economy
Ruthardt, Fabian - 2023
In dieser Dissertation wird die Wechselwirkung zwischen der Wirtschaft und den Wahlen, Politikern und Politik untersucht. Um die Wähler über die Folgen ihrer Wahlentscheidung zu informieren, ist das Verständnis der Dreiecksbeziehung zwischen der Wirtschaft, den politischen Akteuren und den...
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How Often Are Voters Bribed? A Ranking of 82 Countries
McGee, Robert W.; Petrides, Yanira - 2022
The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. Data were taken from the most recent Wave of the World Values Survey. Data were collected in 82 countries. Participants were asked how frequently...
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Vote-buying and growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008
Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762209
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Corruption, Competition, and Contracts : A Model of Vote Buying
Várdy, Felix - 2006
In the presence of competing interest groups, this paper examines how the form of vote-buying contracts affects policy outcomes. We study contracts contingent upon individual votes, policy outcomes, and/or vote shares. Voters either care about their individual votes, or about the policy outcome....
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