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Essays on the political economy of inequality and redistribution
Campante, Filipe R. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691372
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Political competition and economic performance : theory and evidence from the United States
Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten; Sturm, Daniel - 2006 - First draft June 2005, this version November 2005
We formulate a model to explain why the lack of political competition may stifle economic performance and use the United States as a testing ground for the model’s predictions, exploiting the 1965 Voting Rights Act which helped break the near monpoly on political power of the Democrats in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439365
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Explaining institutional change : why elected politicians implement direct democracy
Hugh-Jones, David - 2008
creating these institutions. I build a model of direct democracy that explains why a representative might benefit from tying … that some politicians benefit from the introduction of direct democracy, since they are more likely to survive … representative elections: direct democracy credibly prevents politicians from realising extreme outcomes. Historical evidence from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796322
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On two-period committee voting : why straw polls should have consequences
Frommeyer, Tim Julius - 2015
about the state of the world have to make a binary decision. We investigate incentives for truthful revelation of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430746
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Fair apportionment in the view of the Venice Commission's recommendation
Biró, Péter; Kóczy, László Á.; Sziklai, Balázs - 2013
In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting districts among larger administrative regions. This recommendation requires the size of any constituency not to differ from the average constituency size by more than a fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197548
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(Dis)honest politicians and the value of transparency for campaign promises
Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2020
Promises are prevalent in many economic environments. They offer the opportunity to honor future obligations when promise keeping is observable. This paper studies the value of transparency and asks whether promises still work if such transparency is missing. We focus on the context of campaign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231501
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Energy choices in a democratic society
1980
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Demokratie und Wahlen in westlichen Demokratien
Fröchling, Henrike - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729671
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Immigration policy and Hispanics' willingness to run for office
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bucheli, José R. - 2020
For the first time in U.S. history, approximately 10 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives is Hispanic. The greater engagement of Hispanics in national politics has occurred after unprecedented growth in interior immigration enforcement disproportionately impacting Latinos. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290819
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Hate at first sight? : dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration : the case of Ukip
Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152189