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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009
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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Do Citizens Vote Sincerely (If They Vote at All)? Theory and Evidence from U.S. National Elections
Degan, Arianna; Merlo, Antonio - 2006
data for eight presidential election years (1972-2000). Our main findings can be summarized as follows. First, a non …
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Manufacturing and the 2016 Election : An Analysis of US Presidential Election Data
Freund, Caroline - 2017
Much of the public discourse and media analysis of the surprise outcome of the 2016 US presidential election has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954552
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Risks, Responsibility and Public Respect : Cases of Entrepreneurs Elected in the USA and Russia
Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Zhavoronkov, Sergei; Shestakov, … - 2013
Adam Smith pointed out public respect, prestige as significant component of compensation "for some employment" ("honorableness ... of employment"). We assumed, the public moral sanction on success (Weber), public demand for "self-made man" should correlate positively with number of businessmen...
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How Money Drives US Congressional Elections
Ferguson, Thomas; Jorgensen, Paul; Chen, Jie - 2016
This paper analyzes whether money influences election outcomes. Using a new and more comprehensive dataset built from …
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Political (self-)selection and competition : evidence from U.S. Congressional elections
Bose, Paul - 2021 - This version: October 2020
winner of the general election. …
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Electoral College and Election Fraud
Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
One frequently overlooked aspect of the U.S.-style electoral college system is that it discourages election fraud. In a … presidential election based on the popular vote, competing political parties are motivated to manipulate votes in areas where they … electoral college system provides more effective protection against election fraud compared to the popular vote system. While …
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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?
Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015
This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...
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Policy uncertainty and manufacturing investment : evidence from U.S. State elections
Shelton, Cameron A.; Falk, Nathan - 2016 - This draft: March 2016
year of a gubernatorial election, the elasticity of investment to the eventual margin of victory is 0.027. Both the …
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Does trade liberalization with China influence U.S. elections?
Che, Yi; Lu, Yi; Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K.; … - 2016 - This draft: April 2016
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on U.S. Congressional elections. We find that U.S. counties subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share of votes cast for Democrats and the probability that the...
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