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Faguet, Jean-Paul - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 53 (2014), pp. 2-13

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An agenda-setting model of electoral competition

Colomer, Josep M.; Llavador, Humberto - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 73-93

This paper presents a model of electoral competition focusing on the formation of the public agenda. An incumbent government and a challenger party in opposition compete in elections by choosing the issues that will key out their campaigns. Giving salience to an issue implies proposing an...

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Are we witnessing a paradigm shift in the analysis of political competition?

Padovano, Fabio - In: Public choice 156 (2013) 3/4, pp. 631-651

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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...

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Voting with your feet : political competition and internal migration in the United States

Liu, Wai-man; Ngo, Phong - In: European journal of political economy 65 (2020), pp. 1-20

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Parties, divided government, and infrastructure expenditures : evidence from US states

Buchheim, Lukas; Fretz, Stephan - In: European journal of political economy 61 (2020), pp. 1-18

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Decentralisation and tax interactions between actors : what lessons the Cameroonians experience?

Ndjetcheu, Louis - In: International journal of critical accounting : IJCA 8 (2016) 2, pp. 166-178

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Strategic spending in federal governments : theory and evidence from the US

Garofalo, Pablo J. - In: Journal of applied economics 22 (2019) 1, pp. 243-272

Past research on the allocation of federal resources to localities has failed to account for the interaction between federal and state governments. Here a sequential-move game of such interaction is developed, where state governments behave like political surrogates for the federal government...

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Political (self-)selection and competition : evidence from U.S. Congressional elections

Bose, Paul - 2021 - This version: October 2020

How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and general elections for the years 1998-2014 to study this question. I measure quality using previous legislative experience and the novel "identity match" quantifying how well...

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Central Bank accountability and transparency: theory and some evidence

Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.; Hoeberichts, Marco - 2000

The first part of this paper outlines the concept of democratic accountability of central banks, and compares the legal … accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve … System). In the second part, we present a theory of central bank accountability. Two aspects of accountability are considered …

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